TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of large-scale structures upon near-wall turbulence
AU - Iwamoto, Kaoru
AU - Tsukahara, Takahiro
AU - Nakano, Hideki
AU - Kawamura, Hiroshi
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Direct numerical simulation
KW - Large-scale structures
KW - Reynolds number dependence
KW - Turbulent boundary layer
KW - Wall turbulence
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6472-2_8
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6472-2_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84861119656
SN - 9781402064715
T3 - Solid Mechanics and its Applications
SP - 55
EP - 60
BT - IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence - Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence
T2 - IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence
Y2 - 11 September 2006 through 14 September 2006
ER -