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Flow due to an oscillating sphere and an expression for unsteady drag on the sphere at finite Reynolds number

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Renwei Mei
Renwei Mei
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics and Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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Abstract

Unsteady flow due to an oscillating sphere with a velocity U0cosωt’, in which U0 and ω are the amplitude and frequency of the oscillation and t’ is time, is investigated at finite Reynolds number. The methods used are: (i) Fourier mode expansion in the frequency domain; (ii) a time-dependent finite difference technique in the time domain; and (iii) a matched asymptotic expansion for high-frequency oscillation. The flow fields of the steady streaming component, the second and third harmonic components are obtained with the fundamental component. The dependence of the unsteady drag on ω is examined at small and finite Reynolds numbers. For large Stokes number, ε = (ωa2/2v)½ [Gt ] 1, in which a is the radius of the sphere and v is the kinematic viscosity, the numerical result for the unsteady drag agrees well with the high-frequency asymptotic solution; and the Stokes (1851) solution is valid for finite Re at ε [Gt ] 1. For small Strouhal number, St = ωa/U0 [Lt ] 1, the imaginary component of the unsteady drag (Scaled by 6πU0pfva, in which Pf is the fluid density) behaves as Dml ∼ (h0Stlog St–h1St), m = 1,3,5… This is in direct contrast to an earlier result obtained for an unsteady flow over a stationary sphere with a small-amplitude oscillation in the free-stream velocity (hereinafter referred to as the SA case) in which D1∼ –h1St (Mei, Lawrence & Adrian 1991). Computations for flow over a sphere with a free-stream velocity U0(1–α1+α1cosωt’) at Re = U02a/v = 0.2 and St [Lt ] 1 show that h0 for the first mode varies from 0 (at α1 = 0) to around 0.5 (at α1 = 1) and that the SA case is a degenerated case in which the logarithmic dependence of the drag in St is suppressed by the strong mean uniform flow.

The numerical results for the unsteady drag are used to examine an approximate particle dynamic equation proposed for spherical particles with finite Reynolds number. The equation includes a quasi-steady drag, an added-mass force, and a modified history force. The approximate expression for the history force in the time domain compares very well with the numerical results of the SA case for all frequencies; it compares favourably for the PO case for moderate and high frequencies; it underestimates slightly the history force for the PO case at low frequency. For a solid sphere settling in a stagnant liquid with zero initial velocity, the velocity history is computed using the proposed particle dynamic equation. The results compare very well with experimental data of Moorman (1955) over a large range of Reynolds numbers. The present particle dynamic equation at finite Re performs consistently better than that proposed by Odar & Hamilton (1964) both qualitatively and quantitatively for three different types of spatially uniform unsteady flows.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 270 , 10 July 1994 , pp. 133 - 174
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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