Exact coherent states with hairpin-like vortex structure in channel flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.409zbMATH Open1415.76137arXiv1709.02484OpenAlexW3101585037WikidataQ129654949 ScholiaQ129654949MaRDI QIDQ4582949FDOQ4582949

Authors: Ashwin Shekar, Michael D. Graham 

Publication date: 27 August 2018

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

Abstract: Hairpin vortices are widely studied as an important structural aspect of wall turbulence. The present work describes, for the first time, nonlinear traveling wave solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations in the channel flow geometry -- exact coherent states (ECS) -- that display hairpin-like vortex structure. This solution family comes into existence at a saddle-node bifurcation at Reynolds number Re=666. At the bifurcation, the solution has a highly symmetric quasistreamwise vortex structure similar to that reported for previously studied ECS. With increasing distance from the bifurcation, however, both the upper and lower branch solutions develop a vortical structure characteristic of hairpins: a spanwise-oriented "head" near the channel centerplane where the mean shear vanishes connected to counter-rotating quasistreamwise "legs" that extend toward the channel wall. At Re=1800, the upper branch solution has mean and Reynolds shear-stress profiles that closely resemble those of turbulent mean profiles in the same domain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02484

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear dynamical systemsturbulent flowsboundary layer structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology (37N10) Transition to turbulence (76F06) Viscous vortex flows (76D17)

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Uses Software

• channelflow

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