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A second-moment closure study of rotating channel flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

B. E. Launder ,
D. P. Tselepidakis  and
B. A. Younis
B. E. Launder
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, Manchester, UK
D. P. Tselepidakis
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, Manchester, UK
B. A. Younis
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, Manchester, UK
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Abstract

The second-moment closure applied by Gibson & Launder (1978) to buoyant turbulent flows is here employed without modification to compute the effects of Coriolis forces on fully-developed flow in a rotating channel. The augmentation of turbulent transport on the pressure surface of the channel and its damping on the suction surface seem to be well captured by the computations, provided the flow near the suction surface remains turbulent. The rather striking alteration in shape of the mean velocity profile that occurs as the Rossby number is increased from 0.06 to 0.2 is shown to be explicable in terms of the modification to the intensity of the turbulent velocity fluctuations normal to the plate; for the larger value of Rossby number these fluctuations become larger than those in the flow direction causing what at low spin rates is a source of shear stress to become a sink.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 183 , October 1987 , pp. 63 - 75
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© 1987 Cambridge University Press

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