Stratified inclined duct: direct numerical simulations

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.502zbMATH Open1521.76176arXiv2301.09773MaRDI QIDQ6132847FDOQ6132847

Gregory A. Lawrence, Amir Atoufi, Rich R. Kerswell, Stuart B. Dalziel, P. F. Linden, Adrien Lefauve, Lu Zhu, J. R. Taylor

Publication date: 17 August 2023

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

Abstract: The stratified inclined duct (SID) experiment consists of a zero-net-volume exchange flow in a long tilted rectangular duct, which allows the study of realistic stratified shear flows with sustained internal forcing. We present the first three-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of SID to explore the transitions between increasingly turbulent flow regimes first described by Meyer & Linden ( extit{J. Fluid Mech.} extbf{753}, 242-253, 2014). We develop a numerical set-up that faithfully reproduces the experiments and sustains the flow for arbitrarily long times at minimal computational cost. We recover the four qualitative flow regimes found experimentally in the same regions of parameter space: laminar flow, waves, intermittent turbulence, and fully-developed turbulence. We find good qualitative and quantitative agreement between DNS and experiments and highlight the added value of DNS to complement experimental diagnostics and increase our understanding of the transition to turbulence, both temporally (laminar/turbulent cycles) and parametrically (as the tilt angle of the duct and the Reynolds number are increased). These results demonstrate that numerical studies of SID -- and deeper integration between simulations and experiments -- have the potential to lead to a better understanding of stratified turbulence in environmental flows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09773

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zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq approximationfully developed turbulencehigh-order finite difference schemestratified turbulenceshear layer turbulencewave flow, intermittent turbulence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

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