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Steady compressible vortex flows: the hollow-core vortex array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

K. Ardalan ,
D. I. Meiron  and
D. I. Pullin
K. Ardalan
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
D. I. Meiron
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
D. I. Pullin
Affiliation:
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract

We examine the effects of compressiblity on the structure of a single row of hollowcore, constant-pressure vortices. The problem is formulated and solved in the hodograph plane. The transformation from the physical plane to the hodograph plane results in a linear problem that is solved numerically. The numerical solution is checked via a Rayleigh-Janzen expansion. It is observed that for an appropriate choice of the parameters M∞ = q∞/c∞, and the speed ratio, a = q∞/qv, where qv is the speed on the vortex boundary, transonic shock-free flow exists. Also, for a given fixed speed ratio, a, the vortices shrink in size and get closer as the Mach number at infinity, M∞, is increased. In the limit of an evacuated vortex core, we find that all such solutions exhibit cuspidal behaviour corresponding to the onset of limit lines.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 301 , 25 October 1995 , pp. 1 - 17
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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