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A new high Reynolds number wind-tunnel facility at New Mexico State University (NMSU) was fitted with a roughened surface consisting of sheets of paper embossed by a Braille printer. The resulting roughness distribution was regular, three-dimensional and relatively sparse in the spanwise direction. Careful hot-wire studies show that the near-wall peak in turbulence intensity is reduced by the roughness, as expected. Comparisons with smooth-wall data indicate that turbulence is only affected by the roughness in the near-wall region, again as expected. However, analysis of the energy spectra showed an unexpected result: large-scale structures are significantly influenced by the roughness elements, despite the elements being ∼ 2 orders of magnitude smaller in size than these large-scale motions. This result excites the possibility of manipulating large-scale flow features with tiny protrusions.
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Monty, J.P., Chong, M.S., Mathis, R., Hutchins, N., Marusic, I., Allen, J.J. (2010). A High Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer with Regular ‘Braille-Type’ Roughness. In: Nickels, T. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on The Physics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows on Rough Walls. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9631-9_10
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