Direct numerical simulation of quasi-two-dimensional MHD turbulent shear flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.103MaRDI QIDQ3389411zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Long Chen, Alban Pothérat, Ming-Jiu Ni, René Moreau

Publication date 10 May 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01721

zbMATH Keywords

magnetohydrodynamicsMHD turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are performed to study the turbulent shear flow of an electrically conducting fluid in a cylindrical container. The flow is driven by the interaction between the radial electric currents ($I$) injected through a large number of small electrodes at the bottom wall and an axial magnetic field. All the numerical parameters, including the geometry of the container, the total injcected currents and the magnetic field, are in line with the experiment performed in J. Fluid Mech. 456, 137-159. First, witth laminar Hartmann layers, three dimensional simulations recover experimentally measured quantities (global angular momentum, velocity profiles). The variation laws for the wall shear stresses, the energy spectra and visualizations of flow structures near the side wall highlight separation and turbulence within the side wall layers. Furthermore, a parametric analysis of the flow reveals that Ekman recirculations have significant influence on the vortex size, the free shear layer, and the global dissipation. Second, we recover the scaling laws of the cutoff scale that separate the large quasi-two-dimensional scales from the small three-dimensional ones (J. Fluid Mech. 118, 507-518), and thus establish their validity in sheared MHD turbulence. Furthermore, we find that three-componentality are and the three-dimensionality appear concurrently and that both the two-dimensional cutoff frequency and the mean energy associated to the axial component of velocity scale with $N_t$, respectively as $0.063N_t^{0.37}$ and $0.126N_t^{-0.92}$.

Recommendations

• Direct numerical simulation as a tool for understanding MHD liquid metal turbulence
• Direct numerical simulation of forced MHD turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number
• MHD turbulence in a channel with spanwise field
• Numerical study of magnetohydrodynamic duct flow at high Reynolds and Hartmann numbers
• Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence at Low Magnetic Reynolds Number

Cites work

• A current density conservative scheme for incompressible MHD flows at a low magnetic Reynolds number. II: On an arbitrary collocated mesh
• A note on Bödewadt--Hartmann layers
• A shallow water model for magnetohydrodynamic flows with turbulent Hartmann layers
• An effective two-dimensional model for MHD flows with transverse magnetic field
• An experimental investigation of MHD quasi-two-dimensional turbulent shear flows
• Dimensionality, secondary flows and helicity in low-\textit{RM} MHD vortices
• Direct numerical simulations of low-Rm MHD turbulence based on the least dissipative modes
• Experimental study of the instability of the Hartmann layer
• Instabilities and turbulence in magnetohydrodynamic flow in a toroidal duct prior to transition in Hartmann layers
• Large eddy simulation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulent duct flows
• Magnetohydrodynamic Taylor vortex flow under a transverse pressure gradient
• Numerical simulation of the transition from three- to two-dimensional turbulence under a uniform magnetic field
• Numerical simulations of an effective two-dimensional model for flows with a transverse magnetic field
• The role of angular momentum in the magnetic damping of turbulence
• Weakly nonlinear stability of Hartmann boundary layers
• Why, how and when MHD turbulence at low becomes three-dimensional
• Why, how, and when, MHD turbulence becomes two-dimensional

Cited in

(8)

• Direct numerical simulation as a tool for understanding MHD liquid metal turbulence
• Direct numerical simulations of low-Rm MHD turbulence based on the least dissipative modes
• Quasi-two-dimensional liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamics and the anticipated vorticity method
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5042614 (Why is no real title available?)
• Effects of horizontal magnetic fields on turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cuboid vessel with aspect ratio Γ = 5
• Large-eddy simulation for decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at low magnetic Reynolds number
• Exploring from classical vertical convection to magnetoconvection: statistical properties of dissipation and scaling relations
• Numerical simulation of turbulent flow in Flowcube platform under a strong magnetic field

This page was built for publication: Direct numerical simulation of quasi-two-dimensional MHD turbulent shear flows

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3389411)