Generation of noise caused by the flow around a cylinder and its control are important in various engineering applications. Based on computational fluid dynamics with acoustic analogy and the vortex dynamics theory analysis, this study aims at investigating the ability of the wavy cylinder in improving aerodynamic performance and reducing aerodynamic noise. Noise control mechanisms with different Reynolds numbers are analyzed. The results show that the wavy cylinder is helpful for the reduction of the average drag coefficient and is efficient in suppressing fluctuation of the lift coefficient; consequently, the overall noise of the wavy cylinder is reduced. Specifically, the tonal noise is significantly suppressed or even eliminated under proper configurations. To explore the underlying noise suppression mechanisms, the process of vorticity generation around the wavy cylinder surface is examined in detail. The vorticity distribution on the surface of the wavy cylinder is profoundly improved, and the distribution of the boundary vorticity flux and boundary enstrophy flux is also remarkably weakened. As a result, the generation of vorticity near the wavy cylinder wall is diminished. These directly lead to a significant contraction of the vortex structure distribution in the wavy cylinder wake, especially for some large-scale vortex structures. Moreover, periodic vortex shedding is significantly suppressed in the case with high Reynolds numbers, which might be the main reasons for noise reduction. The interaction area of the positive and negative Lamb vector divergence, which is closely related to the noise generation, is decreased. This contributes to drag reduction and noise attenuation. This indicates that drag reduction and noise suppression are closely bounded in the wavy cylinder.
Aiming at the key scientific problems of strengthening cooling and heat dissipation of turbine blades, a new type of corrugated channel cooling structure was proposed in this work. Refined numerical simulation were carried out in 6 different corrugated channels, and the physical mechanism of flow and heat transfer was analyzed in detail. The results show that the corrugated channel has smaller flow resistance than the ribbed channel. Among the corrugated channels, the heat transfer effects of sinusoidal, triangular and sawtooth2 corrugated channels are stronger than rib corrugated channel at high Reynolds number, and these effects are distributed evenly. Within the 6 kinds of corrugated channels, the sinusoidal corrugated channel has the best comprehensive heat transfer effect due to its significant increase of the heat transfer coefficient on the inner channel surface of the blade and it is at its largest at the shrinkage of the pipe. The heat transfer capacity of the sinusoidal corrugated channel is closely related to the shape of the corrugation, and the heat transfer effect is at its best near the waveform H/L=0.115. The physical mechanism of heat transfer enhancement of the corrugated channel is revealed in this paper, which can provide a reference for the design of the cooling structure of aero-engine blades in the future.
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