Designing a minimal baffle to destabilise turbulence in pipe flows

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.518zbMATH Open1460.76395arXiv2006.11902OpenAlexW3105350092MaRDI QIDQ5116506FDOQ5116506

Ashley P. Willis, Rich R. Kerswell, Zijing Ding, Elena Marensi

Publication date: 25 August 2020

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

Abstract: Motivated by the results of recent experiments (K"uhnen et al., Flow Turb. Combust., vol. 100, 2018, pp. 919-943), we consider the problem of designing a baffle (an obstacle to the flow) to relaminarise turbulence in pipe flows. Modelling the baffle as a spatial distribution of linear drag $mathbff(mathbfx,t)=-chi(mathbfx)mathbf{u}_{tot}(mathbfx,t)$ within the flow ($mathbf{u}_{tot}$ is the total velocity field and $chige0$ a scalar field), two different optimisation problems are considered to design $chi$ at a Reynolds number $Re=3000$. In the first, the smallest baffle defined in terms of a $L_1$ norm of $chi$ is sought which minimises the viscous dissipation rate of the flow. In the second, a baffle which minimises the total energy consumption of the flow is treated. Both problems indicate that the baffle should be axisymmetric and radially localised near the pipe wall, but struggle to predict the optimal streamwise extent. A manual search finds an optimal baffle one radius long which is then used to study how the amplitude for relaminarisation varies with $Re$ up to $15,000$. Large stress reduction is found at the pipe wall, but at the expense of an increased pressure drop across the baffle. Estimates are then made of the break even point downstream of the baffle where the stress reduction at the wall due to the relaminarised flow compensates for the extra drag produced by the baffle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11902

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zbMATH Keywords

drag reductiontransition to turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transition to turbulence (76F06) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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Cited In (6)

• Stabilising pipe flow by a baffle designed using energy stability
• Active control of compressible channel flow up to Mab=3 using direct numerical simulations with spanwise velocity modulation at the walls
• Stabilisation and drag reduction of pipe flows by flattening the base profile
• Shape optimisation for a stochastic two-dimensional cylinder wake using ensemble variation
• Reduction of turbulent skin-friction drag by passively rotating discs
• Exact coherent states in plane Couette flow under spanwise wall oscillation

Uses Software

• Openpipeflow

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