Energy dissipation caused by boundary layer instability at vanishing viscosity

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DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.396zbMATH Open1415.76134arXiv1706.00942OpenAlexW2623683795WikidataQ129649402 ScholiaQ129649402MaRDI QIDQ4685376FDOQ4685376


Authors: Natacha Nguyen van Yen, Matthias Waidmann, Marie Farge, Kai Schneider, Rupert Klein Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 October 2018

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

Abstract: A qualitative explanation for the scaling of energy dissipation by high Reynolds number fluid flows in contact with solid obstacles is proposed in the light of recent mathematical and numerical results. Asymptotic analysis suggests that it is governed by a fast, small scale Rayleigh-Tollmien-Schlichting instability with an unstable range whose lower and upper bounds scale as Re3/8 and Re1/2, respectively. By linear superposition the unstable modes induce a boundary vorticity flux of order Re1, a key ingredient in detachment and drag generation according to a theorem of Kato. These predictions are confirmed by numerically solving the Navier-Stokes equations in a two-dimensional periodic channel discretized using compact finite differences in the wall-normal direction, and a spectral scheme in the wall-parallel direction.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00942




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