Recovery of vortex packet organization in perturbed turbulent boundary layers

Yan Ming Tan, Ellen K. Longmire

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

7 Scopus citations

Abstract

Turbulent boundary layers with Reτ=2500 were perturbed by an array of cylinders projecting outward from the wall, and the flow organization downstream was investigated at multiple measurement heights in the logarithmic region. Two array heights were considered: H=0.2δ, extending through the log region and H=δ, extending to the top of the boundary layer. Results from instantaneous PIV in wall-parallel planes and a vortex packet identification algorithm clearly showed a bottom-up mechanism for packet recovery downstream of the H=δ array, even though streamwise velocity statistics remained strongly perturbed. In contrast, some indications of top-down recovery were observed for the flow perturbed by the shorter H=0.2δ (H+=500) array. In this case, however, packet structures closer to the wall at z+=125 remained altered beyond the end of the measurement domain 7δ downstream of the cylinders even though streamwise velocity statistics relaxed nearly to the unperturbed values.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number104602
JournalPhysical Review Fluids
Volume2
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 American Physical Society.

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Recovery of vortex packet organization in perturbed turbulent boundary layers'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this