Assignment # 3 - Large Scale Structures 1.

In a couple of sentences, describe why a robust Large Scale Structure (LSS) identification technique should be Galilean invariant. 2. Critical Point Analysis - You will be given data containing two components of velocity in a plane. The provided data is from a Mach 0.9 axisymmetric jet. The coordinates have been normalized by the jet diameter (D = 2.54 cm) and the velocities are in units of m/s. While the data given is two dimensional in the sense that it contains two components of velocity in a plane, it is important to know that the data is not two-dimensional in the mathematical sense (i.e. the three critical point criteria are not mathematically identical). a. Using a 2nd order accurate central difference scheme, write the code necessary to compute the velocity gradient tensor field for a two-dimensional slice of a 3-D flow-field. This should amount to computing du/dx, du/dy, dv/dx, and dv/dy and arranging them into a tensor object as discussed in class for each point in the domain. If you prefer, you can construct the tensor in its 3-D form and populate the appropriate elements with zeros. b. Using the result of part a), write codes which calculate the , i, Q, and 2 fields. c. Using the provided data, compute and plot contours for the three identification methods. , Q, and 2 should be plotted as values as opposed to logical. d. Interpret the contour plots from part c) and briefly discuss the similarities and differences between the results obtained with the various methods. In the case of the Q-criterion, you may assume that the pressure minimum condition is automatically satisfied.

For those of you who arent familiar with discretized differentiation, a 2nd order central scheme for the first derivate in one-dimension is as follows: u (i) u (i + 1) u (i 1) = x 2dx where dx is the spacing of the grid and i is the index of the current grid point. This method will fail if it is applied to the points on the edge of the domain so you may ignore those points in your analysis.