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Direct numerical simulation of turbulence in a nominally zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate boundary layer

2009· article· en· 559 citations· W2115804172 on OpenAlex· 10.1017/s0022112009006624

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Abstract

A nominally-zero-pressure-gradient incompressible boundary layer over a smooth flat plate was simulated for a continuous momentum thickness Reynolds number range of 80 ≤ Re θ ≤ 940. Transition which is completed at approximately Re θ = 750 was triggered by intermittent localized disturbances arising from patches of isotropic turbulence introduced periodically from the free stream at Re θ = 80. Streamwise pressure gradient is quantified with several measures and is demonstrated to be weak. Blasius boundary layer is maintained in the early transitional region of 80 < Re θ < 180 within which the maximum deviation of skin friction from the theoretical solution is less than 1%. Mean and second-order turbulence statistics are compared with classic experimental data, and they constitute a rare DNS dataset for the spatially developing zero-pressure-gradient turbulent flat-plate boundary layer. Our calculations indicate that in the present spatially developing low-Reynolds-number turbulent flat-plate boundary layer, total shear stress mildly overshoots the wall shear stress in the near-wall region of 2–20 wall units with vanishing normal gradient at the wall. Overshoots as high as 10% across a wider percentage of the boundary layer thickness exist in the late transitional region. The former is a residual effect of the latter. The instantaneous flow fields are vividly populated by hairpin vortices. This is the first time that direct evidence (in the form of a solution of the Navier–Stokes equations, obeying the statistical measurements, as opposed to synthetic superposition of the structures) shows such dominance of these structures. Hairpin packets arising from upstream fragmented Λ structures are found to be instrumental in the breakdown of the present boundary layer bypass transition.

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The record

Venue
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Topic
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Field
Engineering
Canadian institutions
Royal Military College of Canada
Funders
not available
Keywords
Pressure gradientBoundary layerTurbulenceBoundary layer thicknessReynolds numberMechanicsPhysicsBlasius boundary layerIsotropyDirect numerical simulationClassical mechanicsOptics
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yes