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Volume 100, Number 2, October 2012
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Article Number | 24001 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/24001 | |
Published online | 30 October 2012 |
Onset and universality of turbulent drag reduction in von Karman swirling flow
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot 76100, Israel
Received: 6 September 2012
Accepted: 21 September 2012
We report the results of experiments on turbulent drag reduction (TDR) in swirling flow of water and water-sucrose polymer solutions, where Re and Wi as well as polymer concentration ϕ are varied. The friction coefficients Cf and Cp defined through average torque and rms of pressure fluctuations prms for different elasticity El = Wi/Re and ϕ vs. Re/Rec collapse onto universal curves in accord with theory, where Rec is Re at TDR onset. The transition lines to the TDR state, Rec − El and Rec − ϕ, are measured and relevant physics is discussed. Power spectra for Γ and p at Re/Rec > 1 show a drastic reduction of low-frequency noise and the emergence of a peak corresponding to the main vortex frequency in accord with TDR.
PACS: 47.50.-d – Non-Newtonian fluid flows / 47.27.Jv – High-Reynolds-number turbulence / 47.57.Ng – Polymers and polymer solutions
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