Air flow in a collapsing cavity
Air flow in a collapsing cavity
We experimentally study the airflow in a collapsing cavity created by the impact of a circular disc on a water surface. We measure the air velocity in the collapsing neck in two ways: Directly, by means of employing particle image velocimetry of smoke injected into the cavity and indirectly, by determining the time rate of change of the volume of the cavity at pinch-off and deducing the air flow in the neck under the assumption that the air is incompressible. We compare our experiments to boundary integral simulations and show that close to the moment of pinch-off, compressibility of the air starts to play a crucial role in the behavior of the cavity. Finally, we measure how the air flow rate at pinch-off depends on the Froude number and explain the observed dependence using a theoretical model of the cavity collapse.
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Peters, Ivo R.
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Gekle, Stephan
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Lohse, Detlef
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van der Meer, Devaraj
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March 2013
Peters, Ivo R.
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Gekle, Stephan
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Lohse, Detlef
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van der Meer, Devaraj
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Peters, Ivo R., Gekle, Stephan, Lohse, Detlef and van der Meer, Devaraj
(2013)
Air flow in a collapsing cavity.
Physics of Fluids, 25 (3), .
(doi:10.1063/1.4794125).
Abstract
We experimentally study the airflow in a collapsing cavity created by the impact of a circular disc on a water surface. We measure the air velocity in the collapsing neck in two ways: Directly, by means of employing particle image velocimetry of smoke injected into the cavity and indirectly, by determining the time rate of change of the volume of the cavity at pinch-off and deducing the air flow in the neck under the assumption that the air is incompressible. We compare our experiments to boundary integral simulations and show that close to the moment of pinch-off, compressibility of the air starts to play a crucial role in the behavior of the cavity. Finally, we measure how the air flow rate at pinch-off depends on the Froude number and explain the observed dependence using a theoretical model of the cavity collapse.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 February 2013
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 March 2013
Published date: March 2013
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Local EPrints ID: 399966
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/399966
ISSN: 1070-6631
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