Pseudophase change effects in turbulent channel flow under transcritical temperature conditions
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DOI10.1017/JFM.2019.292zbMATH Open1419.76369arXiv1712.05777OpenAlexW2963879190WikidataQ127853798 ScholiaQ127853798MaRDI QIDQ5378108FDOQ5378108
Authors: Kukjin Kim, Jean-Pierre Hickey, Carlo Scalo 
Publication date: 12 June 2019
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We have performed direct numerical simulations (DNS) of compressible turbulent channel flow at supercritical pressure with top and bottom isothermal walls kept respectively at a supercritical (Ttop > Tpb) and subcritical temperature (Tbot < Tpb), where Tpb is the pseudoboiling temperature. The DNS are conducted using a high-order discretization of the fully compressible Navier-Stokes equations in conservative form closed with the Peng-Robinsion (PR) state equation. Bulk density is adjusted to obtain a bulk pressure of approximately pb = 1.1pcr where pcr is the critical pressure of the working fluid. Top-to-bottom temperature differences investigated are DT = 5 K, 10 K, and 20 K, where Ttop/bot = Tpb +- DT / 2; buoyancy effects are neglected. Varying DT modifies the average location of pseudophase change from ypb/h = -0.23 (DT = 5 K) to 0.89 (DT = 20 K), where h is the channel half-height and y = 0 the centerline position. Real-fluid effects cause visible deviations from classical scaling laws in the mean velocity profile. Enstrophy generation due stretching and tilting decreases with DT. The proximity to the pseudotransitioning layer inhibits the intensity of the velocity fluctuations, while enhancing the density and temperature fluctuations. Conditional probability analysis reveals that the sheet of fluid undergoing pseudophase change is characterized by a dramatic reduction in the kurtosis of density fluctuations and becomes thinner as DT is increased. Instantaneous visualizations show dense fluid ejections from the pseudoliquid viscous sublayer, some reaching the channel core, causing positive values of density skewness in the respective buffer-layer region (vice versa for the top wall).
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05777
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