Highly Turbulent Flow Laminarized by Hairy Pipe Walls

Bo Anders Nordell; Ragnar Oskar Gawelin

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Highly Turbulent Flow Laminarized by Hairy Pipe Walls

Bo Anders Nordell, Ragnar Oskar Gawelin

Published in International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 30 June 2015 Accepted: 18 July 2015 Published: 28 July 2015

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Abstract

Nature has found ways to laminarize turbulent flows, as demonstrated by the high swim speed of dolphins and the silent flight of owls. Owls locate their prey by hearing and need to fly silently. In both cases it has something to do with the soft pliable surface of the moving body and the wavy pattern that occurs on the dolphin skin and the owl feathers. Our objective was to investigate whether a pipe lined with a hairy soft carpet would “laminarize” air flows. The degree of laminarization was determined by the velocity profile. Manual pressure measurements were done to determine the air velocity at cross-sections along the pipe. Varying flow rates were tested before the hair was cut increasingly shorter. It was found that for some hair lengths the velocity profile approached the parabolic form of laminar flow at very high Reynolds number.

Published in	International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Applications (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijmea.20150304.13
Page(s)	63-70
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Flows in Pipes and Nozzles, High-Reynolds-number Turbulence, Interactions with Surfaces, Laboratory Studies, Laminarization, Stability of Laminar Flows, Velocity Measurements

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Bo Anders Nordell

Department of Architecture and Water, Lule? University of Technology, SE-97187 Lule?, Sweden
Ragnar Oskar Gawelin

Enskilda Gymnasiet, SE-11161 Stockholm, Sweden

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Bo Anders Nordell, Ragnar Oskar Gawelin. Highly Turbulent Flow Laminarized by Hairy Pipe Walls. Int J Mech Eng Appl. 2015;3(4):63-70. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmea.20150304.13

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