Mathematical simulation of the near-bottom section of an ascending twisting flow

Abstract

The available results of laboratory experiments on the formation of free vortices and controlling of their behavior are compared with the results of mathematical simulation of corresponding flows. This is accomplished by constructing solutions for a set of gas dynamics equations. The comparison is performed for a specific scheme of origination and functioning of free ascending twisting flows. In particular, it is shown that the experimental results confirm the proposed scheme of the origination and initial twisting of ascending vortex flows and validate the reason of their stable functioning with the help of the method intended for controlling generated vortices using vertical grids which was implemented in the experiments. The fact of origination of an ascending flow twisting and its directing is mathematically substantiated using the solution to a specific initially edge problem for a set of gas dynamics equations. A stationary flow whose parameters are close to gas-dynamic parameters of free vortices reproduced in the experiments is calculated. © 2013 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.