relation: https://eprints.uet.vnu.edu.vn/eprints/id/eprint/4598/
title: Turbulent energy cascade associated with viscous reconnection of two vortex rings
creator: Van Luc, Nguyen
creator: Toai Tuyn, Phan
creator: Viet Dung, Duong
creator: Nam Tuan Phuong, Le
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: ISI-indexed journals
description: Collision of two vortex rings (VR) initially arranged in axis-offset and orthogonal configurations at Reynolds numbers (ReΓ ) in a range 5000−200 000 was simulated to investigate turbulent energy cascade associated with their reconnection. Two elliptical VRs are generated by joining each part of the first VR with another part of the second VR for the axis-offset collision. While two VRs associate to form a double U-shaped vortex, and this vortex reconnects itself at two points to form three elliptical VRs linked by the vortex filaments for the orthogonal collision. Many vortex structures in various scales and shapes, including small-scale VRs and horseshoe vortices, are observed in connection regions for both cases. As ReΓ increasing, the energy of formed small vortices raises and their wavenumber (k) range enlarges. The flow energy spectrum approaches a k−5/3 slope of the Kolmogorov hypotheses at low wavenumbers. For the axis-offset collision, the energy spectrum at medium wavenumbers continuously changes from k−3.0 at ReΓ = 5000 to k−1.8 at ReΓ =200 000, and the exponent (α) of the wavenumber is determined by a function as α = 0.3304ln(ReΓ ) − 5.6538. Meanwhile, the energy spectrum at two medium-wavenumber subranges for the orthogonal collision with ReΓ ≥ 20 000 approaches slopes of k−3.0 and k−2.6. Turbulent mixing performance due to the axis-offset collision of two vortex rings is better than that with the orthogonal one.
publisher: AIP
date: 2021-08
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Van Luc, Nguyen and Toai Tuyn, Phan and Viet Dung, Duong and Nam Tuan Phuong, Le  (2021) Turbulent energy cascade associated with viscous reconnection of two vortex rings.  Physics of Fluids, 33 .    ISSN 1070-6631     
relation: DOI: 10.1063/5.0058317