Unified description of turbulent entrainment

DOI10.1017/JFM.2020.836MaRDI QIDQ5144747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maarten van Reeuwijk, John Craske, J. C. Vassilicos

Publication date 19 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06698

zbMATH Keywords

free shear layersjetsplumes/thermals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

Abstract: We present a mathematical description of turbulent entrainment that is applicable to free shear problems that evolve in space, time or both. Defining the global entrainment velocity $overline{V}_g$ to be the fluid motion across an isosurface of an averaged scalar, we find that for a slender flow, $overline{V}_g=overline{u}_{z}eta-overlineD{h}_t/overlineDt$, where $overlineD/overlineDt$ is the material derivative of the average flowfield and $overline{u}_{z}eta$ is the average velocity perpendicular to the flow direction across the interface located at $zeta=h_t$. The description is shown to reproduce well-known results for the axisymmetric jet, the planar wake and the temporal jet, and provides a clear link between the local (small-scale) and global (integral) descriptions of turbulent entrainment. Application to unsteady jets/plumes demonstrates that, under unsteady conditions, the entrainment coefficient $alpha$ no longer only captures entrainment of ambient fluid, but also time-dependency effects due to the loss of self-similarity.

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