Nonlinearly most dangerous disturbance for high-speed boundary-layer transition
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.527zbMATH Open1419.76266arXiv1811.12859OpenAlexW2966284149MaRDI QIDQ5229940FDOQ5229940
Authors: Reza Jahanbakhshi, Tamer A. Zaki 
Publication date: 19 August 2019
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Laminar-to-turbulence transition in zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer at Mach 4.5 is studied using direct numerical simulations. For a given level of total disturbance energy, the inflow spectra was designed to correspond to the nonlinearly most dangerous condition that leads to the earliest possible transition Reynolds number. The synthesis of the inlet disturbance is formulated as a constrained optimization, where the control vector is comprised of the amplitudes and relative phases of the inlet modes; the constraints are the prescribed total energy and that the flow evolution satisfies the full nonlinear compressible Navier-Stokes equations; the cost function is the average wall friction which, once maximized, corresponds to the earliest possible transition location. An ensemble variational (EnVar) technique is developed to solve the optimization problem. EnVar updates the estimate of the control vector at the end of each iteration using the gradient of the cost function, which is computed from the outcome of an ensemble of possible solutions. Two inflow conditions are computed, each corresponding to a different level of energy, and their spectra are contrasted: the lower energy case includes two normal acoustic waves and one oblique vorticity perturbation, whereas the higher energy condition consists of oblique acoustic and vorticity waves. The focus is placed on the former case, where the instability wave that initiates the rapid breakdown to turbulence is not present at the inlet plane. Instead, it appears at a downstream location after a series of nonlinear interactions that spur the fastest onset of turbulence. The results from the nonlinearly most potent inflow condition are also compared to other inlet disturbances that are selected solely based on linear theory, and which all yield relatively delayed transition onset.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12859
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