Mechanisms for generating coherent packets of hairpin vortices in channel flow

DOI10.1017/S002211209900467XzbMath0946.76030MaRDI QIDQ4267471

S. Raja Balachandar, Ronald J. Adrian, Jigen Zhou, T. M. Kendall

Publication date: 17 October 2000

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

direct numerical simulation; vortex identification; autoregeneration process; convective velocity of hairpin packet; hairpin vortex-like structure; low Reynolds number channel flow; quasi-streamwise vortices; stochastic estimation methodology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76D05: Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76F65: Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence

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