On the decay of dispersive motions in the outer region of rough-wall boundary layers

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.1019MaRDI QIDQ4625877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Johan Meyers, B. Ganapathisubramani, Raúl Bayoán Cal

Publication date 26 February 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04844, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/426776/1/On_the_decay_of_dispersive_motions_in_the_outer_region_of_rough.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

turbulent boundary layersboundary layer structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

Abstract: In rough-wall boundary layers, wall-parallel non-homogeneous mean-flow solutions exist that lead to so-called dispersive velocity components and dispersive stresses. They play a significant role in the mean-flow momentum balance near the wall, but typically disappear in the outer layer. A theoretical framework is presented to study the decay of dispersive motions in the outer layer. To this end, the problem is formulated in Fourier space, and a set of governing ordinary differential equations per mode in wavenumber space is derived by linearizing the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations around a constant background velocity. With further simplifications, analytically tractable solutions are found consisting of linear combinations of $exp(-kz)$ and $exp(-Kz)$, with $z$ the wall distance, $k$ the magnitude of the horizontal wavevector $mathbfk$, and where $K(mathbfk,extitRe)$ is a function of $mathbfk$ and the Reynolds number $extitRe$. Moreover, for $kightarrowinfty$ or $k_{1}ightarrow0$, $Kightarrowk$ is found, in which case solutions consist of a linear combination of $exp(-kz)$ and $zexp(-kz)$, and are Reynolds number independent. These analytical relations are verified in the limit of $k_1=0$ using the rough boundary layer experiments by Vanderwel and Ganapathisubramani (J. Fluid Mech. 774, R2, 2015) and are in good agreement for $el{l}_k/deltaleq0.5$, with $delta$ the boundary-layer thickness and $el{l}_k=2pi/k$.

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