Modal analysis of pressure fields on and around turrets with different protrusions

Timothy J. Bukowski; Matthew Kalensky; Stanislav Gordeyev; Matthew Kemnetz

doi:10.1117/12.2633429

4 October 2022 Modal analysis of pressure fields on and around turrets with different protrusions

Timothy J. Bukowski, Matthew Kalensky, Stanislav Gordeyev, Matthew Kemnetz

Proceedings Volume 12239, Unconventional Imaging and Adaptive Optics 2022; 122390F (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633429
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Wind tunnel experiments were conducted to measure the unsteady surface pressure field of a hemisphere-on-cylinder turret in subsonic flow. These measurements were obtained using pressure transducers coupled with fast response pressure sensitive paint. The surface pressure field data resulting from Mach 0.5 flow (ReD ≈ 2 × 10⁶ ) over three different turret protrusion distances were analyzed. Previously, dominant surface pressure modes on the turret were found using proper orthogonal decomposition. The results of which showed that greater turret protrusion into the freestream flow increased the prevalence of spanwise anti-symmetric surface pressure field fluctuations. These anti-symmetric pressure fluctuations are caused by anti-symmetrical vortex shedding. However, when a partially submerged hemispherical turret geometry is used, it was shown that this anti-symmetric mode was of much lower relative energy. This suggests that there is a transition in flow field phenomena as protrusion is changed from partially submerged to a full hemisphere configuration. Further investigation into this so-called “mode switching” is the emphasis of the work presented here. This research heavily relied on modal analysis to identify correlations between turret and wake surface pressure fields. The fluctuations in the surface pressure field around the partial hemisphere were found to be mostly dominated by the wake with little influence from fluidic structures on the turret itself. For the hemisphere and hemisphere-on-cylinder configurations, both symmetric and anti-symmetric unsteady separation grew to be the largest influence and was coupled with the wake fluctuations.

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Timothy J. Bukowski, Matthew Kalensky, Stanislav Gordeyev, and Matthew Kemnetz "Modal analysis of pressure fields on and around turrets with different protrusions", Proc. SPIE 12239, Unconventional Imaging and Adaptive Optics 2022, 122390F (4 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633429

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