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A model for confined vortex rings with elliptical-core vorticity distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2016

Ionut Danaila
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Raphaël Salem, Université de Rouen Normandie, F-76801 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, France
Felix Kaplanski
Affiliation:
Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn 12616, Estonia Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories, Advanced Engineering Centre, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
Sergei S. Sazhin*
Affiliation:
Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories, Advanced Engineering Centre, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK
*
Email address for correspondence: S.Sazhin@brighton.ac.uk

Abstract

We present a new model for an axisymmetric vortex ring confined in a tube. The model takes into account the elliptical (elongated) shape of the vortex ring core and thus extends our previous model (Danaila et al. J. Fluid Mech., vol. 774, 2015, pp. 267–297) derived for vortex rings with quasi-circular cores. The new model offers a more accurate description of the deformation of the vortex ring core, induced by the lateral wall, and a better approximation of the translational velocity of the vortex ring, compared with the previous model. The main ingredients of the model are the following: the description of the vorticity distribution in the vortex ring is based on the previous model of unconfined elliptical-core vortex rings (Kaplanski et al. Phys. Fluids, vol. 24, 2012, 033101); Brasseur’s approach (Brasseur, NASA Tech. Rep. JIAA TR-26, 1979) is then applied to derive a wall-induced correction for the Stokes streamfunction of the confined vortex ring flow. We derive closed formulae for the flow streamfunction and vorticity distributions. An asymptotic expression for the long-time evolution of the drift velocity of the vortex ring as a function of the ellipticity parameter is also derived. The predictions of the model are shown to be in agreement with direct numerical simulations of confined vortex rings generated by a piston–cylinder mechanism. The predictions of the model support the recently suggested heuristic relation (Krieg & Mohseni Trans. ASME J. Fluids Engng, vol. 135, 2013, 124501) between the energy and circulation of vortex rings with converging radial velocity. A new procedure for fitting experimental and numerical data with the predictions of the model is described. This opens the way for applying the model to realistic confined vortex rings in various applications including those in internal combustion engines.

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