Large-scale structures in high-Reynolds-number rotating Waleffe flow

DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.840zbMATH Open1460.76434arXiv1903.10652OpenAlexW2924619942WikidataQ126594037 ScholiaQ126594037MaRDI QIDQ5207620FDOQ5207620

Authors: Shafqat Farooq, Martin Huarte-Espinosa, Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico 

Publication date: 13 January 2020

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

Abstract: We perform direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulent Waleffe flow, the flow between two parallel plates with a sinusoidal streamwise shear driving force, to study the formation of large-scale structures and the mechanisms for momentum transport. We simulate different cyclonic and anti-cyclonic rotations in the range of dimensionless rotation numbers (inverse Rossby numbers) $R_{O}mega$ $in$ $[-0.16,2.21]$, and fix the Reynolds number to $Re=3.16imes10^3$, large enough such that the shear transport is almost entirely due to Reynolds stresses and viscous transport is negligible. We find an optimum rotation in anti-cyclonic regime at $R_{O}mega=0.63$, where a given streamwise momentum transport in the wall-normal direction is achieved with minimum mean energy of the streamwise flow. We link this optimal transport to the strength of large scale structures, as was done in plane Couette by Brauckmann & Eckhardt (J. Fluid Mech., 815, 2017). Furthermore, we explore the large-scale structures and their behaviour under spanwise rotation, and find disorganized large structures at $R_{O}mega=0$ but highly organized structures in the anti-cyclonic regime, similar to the rolls in rotating plane Couette and turbulent Taylor Couette flow. We compare the large scale structures of plane Couette flow and Waleffe flow, and observe that the streamwise vorticity is localized inside the cores of the rolls. We show that the rolls take energy from the mean flow at long time-scales, and relate these structures to eigenvalues of the streamfunction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10652

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zbMATH Keywords

Taylor-Couette flowturbulent convectionturbulent boundary layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40) Convective turbulence (76F35)

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