Energy dissipation in body-forced plane shear flow

DOI10.1017/S002211200300613XzbMATH Open1051.76028arXivnlin/0308025WikidataQ62598993 ScholiaQ62598993MaRDI QIDQ4467484FDOQ4467484

Authors: Bruno Eckhardt, Jörg Schumacher, Charles R. Doering 

Publication date: 9 June 2004

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

Abstract: We study the problem of body-force driven shear flows in a plane channel of width l with free-slip boundaries. A mini-max variational problem for upper bounds on the bulk time averaged energy dissipation rate epsilon is derived from the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with no secondary assumptions. This produces rigorous limits on the power consumption that are valid for laminar or turbulent solutions. The mini-max problem is solved exactly at high Reynolds numbers Re = U*l/nu, where U is the rms velocity and nu is the kinematic viscosity, yielding an explicit bound on the dimensionless asymptotic dissipation factor beta=epsilon*l/U^3 that depends only on the ``shape of the shearing body force. For a simple half-cosine force profile, for example, the high Reynolds number bound is beta <= pi^2/sqrt{216} = .6715... . We also report extensive direct numerical simulations for this particular force shape up to Re approximately 400; the observed dissipation rates are about a factor of three below the rigorous high-Re bound. Interestingly, the high-Re optimal solution of the variational problem bears some qualitative resemblence to the observed mean flow profiles in the simulations. These results extend and refine the recent analysis for body-forced turbulence in J. Fluid Mech. 467, 289-306 (2002).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0308025

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zbMATH Keywords

vorticesshear turbulencemaximal shear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30)

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