TITLE:
Flip-Flop Flow Control inside Streamwise Diverging Diamond-Shaped Cylinder Bundles with Concavities
AUTHORS:
Shuichi Torii, Shizaburo Umeda
KEYWORDS:
Flip-Flop Flow; Streamwise Diverging Diamond-Shaped Cylinder Bundle; PIV Measurement; Concavity
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Flow Control, Measurement & Visualization,
Vol.1 No.3,
October
8,
2013
ABSTRACT: The flow visualization work with the aid of PIV and Piezometer deals with flip-flop flow around diamond-shaped cylinder bundle revised with concavities on both bundle walls. It is disclosed that 1) the concavity constructed on both side-walls of a diamond cylinder induces a substantial change in the flow patterns in the exit jet-stream field and jet- stream dispersion, 2) pressure characteristics are quantitatively measured in a diverging-flow region in diamond cylinder bundles with concavityand in its downstream region, and 3) flip-flop flow occurs in the flow passages and its occurrence condition is obtained.