Relationship between wall shear stresses and streamwise vortices

Lihao Wang, Weixi Huang, Chunxiao Xu, Lian Shen, Zhaoshun Zhang

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Abstract

The relationship between wall shear stresses and near-wall streamwise vortices is investigated via a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows over a wavy boundary with traveling-wave motion. The results indicate that the wall shear stresses are still closely related to the near-wall streamwise vortices in the presence of a wave. The wave age and wave phase significantly affect the distribution of a two-point correlation coefficient between the wall shear stresses and streamwise vorticity. For the slow wave case of c/U m = 0.14, the correlation is attenuated above the leeward side while the distribution of correlation function is more elongated and also exhibits a larger vertical extent above the crest. With respect to the fast wave case of c/U m = 1.4, the distribution of the correlation function is recovered in a manner similar to that in the flat-wall case. In this case, the maximum correlation coefficient exhibits only slight differences at different wave phases while the vertical distribution of the correlation function depends on the wave phase.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)381-396
Number of pages16
JournalApplied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition)
Volume40
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

  • O357.5
  • direct numerical simulation (DNS)
  • near-wall streamwise vortex
  • two-point correlation
  • wall shear stress

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