A two-component laser Doppler anemometer was used to determine the velocity of aqueous flow in the region from 0.25 to 2.5 diameters downstream of a collapsible tube while the tube was executing vigorous repetitive flow-induced oscillations. The Reynolds number for the time-averaged flow was 10,750. A simultaneous measurement of the pressure at the downstream end of the tube was used to align all the results in time at sixty locations in each of the two principal planes defined by the axes of collapse of the flexible tube upstream. The raw data of seed-particle velocity were used to create a periodic waveform for each measured velocity component at each location by least-squares fitting of a Fourier series. The results are presented as both velocity vectors and interpolated contours, for each of ten salient instants during the cycle of oscillation. In the plane of the collapse major axis, the dominant feature is the jet which emerges from each of the two tube lobes when it collapses, but transient retrograde flow is observed on both the central and lateral edges of this jet. In the orthogonal, minor-axis plane, the dominant feature is the retrograde flow, which during part of the cycle extends over the whole plane. All these features are essentially confined to the first 1.5 diameters of the rigid pipe downstream of the flexible tube. These data map the temporal and spatial extent of the highly three-dimensional reversing flow just downstream of an oscillating collapsed tube.
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The Flow Field Downstream of an Oscillating Collapsed Tube
C. D. Bertram,
C. D. Bertram
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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A. H. Nugent
A. H. Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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C. D. Bertram
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A. H. Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Contributed by the Bioengineering Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING. Manuscript received October 30, 2003; revised manuscript received August 31, 2004. Associate Editor Ajit Yoganathan.
J Biomech Eng. Feb 2005, 127(1): 39-45 (7 pages)
Published Online: March 8, 2005
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October 30, 2003
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August 31, 2004
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March 8, 2005
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Bertram , C. D., and Nugent, A. H. (March 8, 2005). "The Flow Field Downstream of an Oscillating Collapsed Tube ." ASME. J Biomech Eng. February 2005; 127(1): 39–45. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1835351
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