A model of a turbulent boundary layer with a nonzero pressure gradient

DOI10.1073/PNAS.082117699zbMATH Open1030.76022arXivmath-ph/0202048OpenAlexW2021509001WikidataQ34026583 ScholiaQ34026583MaRDI QIDQ4547710FDOQ4547710

V. M. Prostokishin, Alexandre J. Chorin, G. I. Barenblatt

Publication date: 11 September 2002

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: According to a model of the turbulent boundary layer proposed by the authors, in the absence of external turbulence the intermediate region between the viscous sublayer and the external flow consists of two sharply separated self-similar structures. The velocity distribution in these structures is described by two different scaling laws. The mean velocity u in the region adjacent to the viscous sublayer is described by the previously obtained Reynolds-number-dependent scaling law $phi=u/u_{*}=Aet{a}^{alpha}$, $A=frac1sqrt3lnR{e}_{Lambda}+frac52$, $alpha=frac32lnR{e}_{Lambda}$, $eta=u_{*}y/u$. (Here $u_{*}$ is the dynamic or friction velocity, y is the distance from the wall, $u$ the kinematic viscosity of the fluid, and the Reynolds number $R{e}_{Lambda}$ is well defined by the data) In the region adjacent to the external flow the scaling law is different: $$. The power $$ for zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers was found by processing various experimental data and is close (with some scatter) to 0.2. We show here that for non-zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers, the power $$ is larger than 0.2 in the case of adverse pressure gradient and less than 0.2 for favourable pressure gradient. Similarity analysis suggests that both the coefficient B and the power $$ depend on $R{e}_{Lambda}$ and on a new dimensionless parameter P proportional to the pressure gradient. Recent experimental data of Perry, Maruv{s}i'c and Jones (1)-(4) were analyzed and the results are in agreement with the model we propose.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0202048

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zbMATH Keywords

scaling lawturbulent boundary layersimilarity analysismean velocity distributioneffective Reynolds numbersnonzero pressure gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dimensional analysis and similarity applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M55) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

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