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Coherent structures in the linearized impulse response of turbulent channel flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2019

Sabarish B. Vadarevu Open the ORCID record for Sabarish B. Vadarevu [Opens in a new window] ,
Sean Symon Open the ORCID record for Sean Symon [Opens in a new window] ,
Simon J. Illingworth Open the ORCID record for Simon J. Illingworth [Opens in a new window]  and
Ivan Marusic Open the ORCID record for Ivan Marusic [Opens in a new window]
Sabarish B. Vadarevu
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Sean Symon
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Simon J. Illingworth*
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Ivan Marusic
Affiliation:
Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
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†Email address for correspondence: sillingworth@unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

We study the evolution of velocity fluctuations due to an isolated spatio-temporal impulse using the linearized Navier–Stokes equations. The impulse is introduced as an external body force in incompressible channel flow at $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}=10\,000$. Velocity fluctuations are defined about the turbulent mean velocity profile. A turbulent eddy viscosity is added to the equations to fix the mean velocity as an exact solution, which also serves to model the dissipative effects of the background turbulence on large-scale fluctuations. An impulsive body force produces flow fields that evolve into coherent structures containing long streamwise velocity streaks that are flanked by quasi-streamwise vortices; some of these impulses produce hairpin vortices. As these vortex–streak structures evolve, they grow in size to be nominally self-similar geometrically with an aspect ratio (streamwise to wall-normal) of approximately 10, while their kinetic energy density decays monotonically. The topology of the vortex–streak structures is not sensitive to the location of the impulse, but is dependent on the direction of the impulsive body force. All of these vortex–streak structures are attached to the wall, and their Reynolds stresses collapse when scaled by distance from the wall, consistent with Townsend’s attached-eddy hypothesis.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence modelling Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 863 , 25 March 2019 , pp. 1190 - 1203
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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