Mean turbulence statistics in boundary layers over high-porosity foams

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.57zbMATH Open1419.76312arXiv1712.00836OpenAlexW3099628716MaRDI QIDQ5227024FDOQ5227024

Authors: Christoph Efstathiou, Mitul Luhar 

Publication date: 5 August 2019

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

Abstract: This paper reports turbulent boundary layer measurements made over open-cell reticulated foams with varying pore size and thickness, but constant porosity ($epsilonapprox0.97$). The foams were flush-mounted into a cutout on a flat plate. A Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) was used to measure mean streamwise velocity and turbulence intensity immediately upstream of the porous section, and at multiple measurement stations along the porous substrate. The friction Reynolds number upstream of the porous section was $R{e}_{a}uapprox1690$. For all but the thickest foam tested, the internal boundary layer was fully developed by $<10delta$ downstream from the porous transition, where $delta$ is the boundary layer thickness. Fully developed mean velocity profiles showed the presence of a substantial slip velocity at the porous interface ($>30\mathrm{\%}$ of the free stream velocity) and a mean velocity deficit relative to the canonical smooth-wall profile further from the wall. While the magnitude of the mean velocity deficit increased with average pore size, the slip velocity remained approximately constant. Fits to the mean velocity profile suggest that the logarithmic region is shifted relative to a smooth wall, and that this shift increases with pore size until it becomes comparable to substrate thickness $h$. For all foams, the turbulence intensity was found to be elevated further into the boundary layer to $y/deltaapprox0.2$. An outer peak in intensity was also evident for the largest pore sizes. Velocity spectra indicate that this outer peak is associated with large-scale structures resembling Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices that have streamwise length scale $2delta-4delta$. Skewness profiles suggest that these large-scale structures may have an amplitude-modulating effect on the interfacial turbulence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00836

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zbMATH Keywords

porous mediaturbulent flowsturbulent boundary layers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Turbulent boundary layers (76F40)

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