Controlling secondary flow in Taylor-Couette turbulence through spanwise-varying roughness

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.878MaRDI QIDQ5205708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dennis Bakhuis, Rodrigo Ezeta, Pieter Berghout, Pim A. Bullee, Dominic Tai, D. Chung, R. Verzicco, Sander G. Huisman, Chao Sun, Detlef Lohse

Publication date 16 December 2019

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/1905.06788

zbMATH Keywords

rotating turbulenceTaylor-Couette flowturbulent boundary layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40) Control of turbulent flows (76F70)

Abstract: Highly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with spanwise-varying roughness is investigated experimentally and numerically (direct numerical simulations (DNS) with an immersed boundary method (IBM)) to determine the effects of the spacing and axial width $s$ of the spanwise varying roughness on the total drag and {on} the flow structures. We apply sandgrain roughness, in the form of alternating {rough and smooth} bands to the inner cylinder. Numerically, the Taylor number is $mathcalO(10^9)$ and the roughness width is varied between $0.47leqildes=s/dleq1.23$, where $d$ is the gap width. Experimentally, we explore $extTa=mathcalO(10^{12})$ and $0.61leqildesleq3.74$. For both approaches the radius ratio is fixed at $eta=r_i/r_o=0.716$, with $r_i$ and $r_o$ the radius of the inner and outer cylinder respectively. We present how the global transport properties and the local flow structures depend on the boundary conditions set by the roughness spacing $ildes$. Both numerically and experimentally, we find a maximum in the angular momentum transport as function of $ildes$. This can be atributed to the re-arrangement of the large-scale structures triggered by the presence of the rough stripes, leading to correspondingly large-scale turbulent vortices.

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