Effect of large-scale structures upon near-wall turbulence

Kaoru Iwamoto, Takahiro Tsukahara, Hideki Nakano, Hiroshi Kawamura

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Abstract

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer has been carried out to examine the effect of the large-scale structures (LSSs) upon the near-wall turbulence. It is found by comparison with the DNS data of the Poiseuille and the Couette flows that the spanwise scales of LSSs are different among the canonical wall turbulences when normalized with the channel half width or the boundary layer thickness, and that the effect of LSSs on the near-wall turbulence depends upon the spanwise scales. We introduce a Reynolds number based on the spanwise scales, and suggest that the new Reynolds number dependence of the nearwall turbulence can be analyzed irrespective of the flow configurations at least at low-to-moderate Reynolds numbers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence
Pages55-60
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
EventIUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 11 Sept 200614 Sept 2006

Publication series

NameSolid Mechanics and its Applications
Volume4
ISSN (Print)1875-3507

Conference

ConferenceIUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period11/09/0614/09/06

Keywords

  • Direct numerical simulation
  • Large-scale structures
  • Reynolds number dependence
  • Turbulent boundary layer
  • Wall turbulence

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