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Investigation of Time-Resolved Nozzle Interference Effects

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Progress in Vehicle Aerodynamics and Thermal Management (FKFS 2017)

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Automotive wind tunnels still see an increasing significance in the vehicle development process. Nevertheless, the flow topology in the test sections of open jet wind tunnels is not yet understood completely. A large source for transient structures is the shear layer developing between the high velocity nozzle flow and the calmly air in the plenum.

For a better understanding, the shear layer is investigated in the symmetry plane with a multi-hole probe and PIV measurements in this paper. The analysis of the recorded data shows fluctuations with a Strouhal number of 0.46 based on the nozzle hydraulic diameter. This value matches other researches of jet flow. However, the concept of vortices separating at the nozzle edge seems to be incomplete. The PIV measurements reveal a wave structure in the shear layer at the nozzle exit. These waves release larger vortices moving along the outer boundary of the shear layer. Mode decomposition (POD) shows changing intensities of these vortices for varying wind tunnel velocities. Different flow structures are detected when delta wings are mounted to the nozzle edges.

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Abbreviations

CFD :

Computational Fluid Dynamics

FKFS :

Research Institute of Automotive Engineering and Vehicle Engines Stuttgart

PIV :

Particle Image Velocimetry

POD :

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

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The authors like to thank the team of the model scale wind tunnel for the support and the colleagues from the vehicle aerodynamics and thermal management department for the assisting discussions.

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    Christoph Schoenleber, T. Kuthada, Nils Widdecke, F. Wittmeier & J. Wiedemann

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Schoenleber, C., Kuthada, T., Widdecke, N., Wittmeier, F., Wiedemann, J. (2018). Investigation of Time-Resolved Nozzle Interference Effects. In: Wiedemann, J. (eds) Progress in Vehicle Aerodynamics and Thermal Management. FKFS 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67822-1_7

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