Dynamics of viscoelastic pipe flow at low Reynolds numbers in the maximum drag reduction limit
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.486zbMATH Open1419.76040arXiv1808.04080OpenAlexW2958665177MaRDI QIDQ5229748FDOQ5229748
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Publication date: 19 August 2019
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Polymer additives can substantially reduce the drag of turbulent flows and the upper limit, the so called "maximum drag reduction" (MDR) asymptote is universal, i.e. independent of the type of polymer and solvent used. Until recently, the consensus was that, in this limit, flows are in a marginal state where only a minimal level of turbulence activity persists. Observations in direct numerical simulations using minimal sized channels appeared to support this view and reported long "hibernation" periods where turbulence is marginalized. In simulations of pipe flow we find that, indeed, with increasing Weissenberg number (Wi), turbulence expresses long periods of hibernation if the domain size is small. However, with increasing pipe length, the temporal hibernation continuously alters to spatio-temporal intermittency and here the flow consists of turbulent puffs surrounded by laminar flow. Moreover, upon an increase in Wi, the flow fully relaminarises, in agreement with recent experiments. At even larger Wi, a different instability is encountered causing a drag increase towards MDR. Our findings hence link earlier minimal flow unit simulations with recent experiments and confirm that the addition of polymers initially suppresses Newtonian turbulence and leads to a reverse transition. The MDR state on the other hand results from a separate instability and the underlying dynamics corresponds to the recently proposed state of elasto-inertial-turbulence (EIT).
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04080
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