Adaptive Panel Representation for 3D Vortex Ring Motion and Instability

Kaganovskiy, Leon

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/68953

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Volume 2007 | Article ID 068953 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/68953

Adaptive Panel Representation for 3D Vortex Ring Motion and Instability

Leon Kaganovskiy¹

Academic Editor: Semyon M. Meerkov

Received26 Sept 2006

Accepted16 Oct 2006

Published04 Jan 2007

Abstract

A hierarchical panel method for representing vortex sheet surface motion in 3D flow is presented. Unlike previously employed filament methods, each panel is a leaf of the tree, so it can be subdivided locally, which allows an efficient adaptive point insertion. In addition, we developed curvature-based insertion criteria which allow to localize point insertion to the most complicated curved regions of the sheet. The particles representing the sheet are advected by a regularized Biot-Savart integral with Rosenhead-Moore kernel. The particle velocities are evaluated by an adaptive treecode algorithm based on Taylor expansions in Cartesian coordinates due to Lindsay and Krasny (2001). The method allows to consider much later stages of a vortex ring instability, which may shed light on this complicated flow phase directly leading to the turbulent flow.

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