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Evolution of global enstrophy in cylinder wake controlled by Lorentz force

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  • Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P. R. China

Received date: 2007-10-12

  Revised date: 2008-10-06

  Online published: 2008-11-01

Abstract

The Okubo-Weiss function is correlated with the fluid particle compression, deformation and vorticity, which provides a simple way to characterize different regions of a flow-field. In the present paper, it shows mathematically that the global integration of Okubo-Weiss function is always equal to zero for a two dimensional incompressible flow with no-slip boundaries. To validate the conclusion, a flow passing a circular cylinder controlled by the electromagnetic force is calculated numerically as an example. Distributions of global enstrophy, total squared strain and Okubo-Weiss function in the controlled flow field are discussed. The influence of Lorentz force on the distribution is analyzed.

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HANG Hui;FAN Bao-chun;CHEN Zhi-hua . Evolution of global enstrophy in cylinder wake controlled by Lorentz force[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2008 , 29(11) : 1505 -1516 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-008-1111-y

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