On longitudinal vortices in curved channel flow

The laminar flow in a curved channel is studied numerically to analyse the initial formation, development and interaction phenomena of an array of centrifugally induced longitudinal vortices arranged across the span of the channel. Simulations employing streamwise periodic boundary conditions (temporal model) as well as inlet-outlet conditions (spatial model) are carried out. In the temporal approach the interactions (pairing of vortices and growth of new vortex pairs) of fully developed vortex pairs are time-dependent, whereas in the spatial approach these events are inherently steady and concern vortices not in their fully developed state. The initial spatial development of the vortices is in excellent agreement with results of a linear stability analysis up to fairly large disturbance amplitudes

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