Asymptotics of streamwise Reynolds stress in wall turbulence

DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.924MaRDI QIDQ5014077zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter A. Monkewitz

Publication date 6 December 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07322

zbMATH Keywords

infinite Reynolds number limitinner asymptotic expansionlogarithmic decay ratenormal stress profileouter asymptotic expansionturbulent boundary layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Turbulent boundary layers (76F40) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45)

Abstract: The scaling of different features of stream-wise normal stress profiles $langleuuangl{e}^{+}(y^{+})$ in turbulent wall-bounded flows, in particular in truly parallel flows, such as channel and pipe flows, is the subject of a long running debate. Particular points of contention are the scaling of the "inner" and "outer" peaks of $langleuuangl{e}^{+}$ at $y^{+}approxeq15$ and $y^{+}=mathcalO(10^3)$, respectively, their infinite Reynolds number limit, and the rate of logarithmic decay in the outer part of the flow. Inspired by the landmark paper of Chen and Sreenivasan (2021), two terms of the inner asymptotic expansion of $langleuuangl{e}^{+}$ in the small parameter $R{e}_a{u}^{-1/4}$ are extracted for the first time from a set of direct numerical simulations (DNS) of channel flow. This inner expansion is completed by a matching outer expansion, which not only fits the same set of channel DNS within 1.5% of the peak stress, but also provides a good match of laboratory data in pipes and the near-wall part of boundary layers, up to the highest $R{e}_{a}u$'s of order $10^5$. The salient features of the new composite expansion are first, an inner $langleuuangl{e}^{+}$ peak, which saturates at 11.3 and decreases as $R{e}_a{u}^{-1/4}$, followed by a short "wall loglaw" with a slope that becomes positive for $R{e}_{a}ugtrapprox{20}^{\prime }000$, leading up to an outer peak, and an outer logarithmic overlap with a negative slope continuously going to zero for $R{e}_{a}uoinfty$.

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