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

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.1019zbMATH Open1415.76354arXiv1809.04844OpenAlexW2891493746WikidataQ128522489 ScholiaQ128522489MaRDI QIDQ4625877FDOQ4625877

Authors: Johan Meyers, B. Ganapathisubramani, Raúl Bayoán Cal 

Publication date: 26 February 2019

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

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 $el{l}_k=2pi/k$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04844

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zbMATH Keywords

turbulent boundary layersboundary layer structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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