This study deals with the numerical solution of a 2D unsteady flow of a compressible viscous fluid in a channel for low inlet airflow velocity. The unsteadiness of the flow is caused by a prescribed periodic motion of a part of the channel wall with large amplitudes, nearly closing the channel during oscillations. The channel is a simplified model of the glottal space in the human vocal tract and the flow can represent a model of airflow coming from the trachea, through the glottal region with periodically vibrating vocal folds to the human vocal tract.
The flow is described by the system of Navier-Stokes equations for laminar flows. The numerical solution is implemented using the finite volume method (FVM) and the predictor-corrector MacCormack scheme with Jameson artificial viscosity using a grid of quadrilateral cells. Due to the motion of the grid, the basic system of conservation laws is considered in the Arbitary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) form.
The authors present the numerical simulations of flow fields in the channel acquired from a program developed exclusively for this purpose. The numerical results for unsteady flows in the channel are presented for inlet Mach number M∞ = 0.012, Reynolds number Re∞ = 5x103 and the wall motion frequency 100 Hz. and Obsahuje seznam literatury