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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2009.33.12.977

A Direct Numerical Simulation Study on the very Large-Scale Motion in Turbulent Boundary Layer  

Lee, Jae-Hwa (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
Sung, Hyung-Jin (한국과학기술원 기계공학과)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.33, no.12, 2009 , pp. 977-982 More about this Journal
Abstract
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent boundary layer with moderate Reynolds number was performed to scrutinize streamwise-coherence of hairpin packet motions. The Reynolds number based on the momentum thickness (${\theta}_{in}$) and free-stream velocity (U${\infty}$) was varied in the range $Re_{\theta}$=1410${\sim}$2540 which was higher than the previous numerical simulations in the turbulent boundary layer. In order to include the groups of hairpin packets existing in the outer layer, large computational domain was used (more than 50${\delta}_o$, where ${\theta}_o$ is the boundary layer thickness at the inlet in the streamwise domain). Characteristics of packet motions were investigated by using instantaneous flow fields, two-point correlation and conditional average flow fields in xy-plane. The present results showed that a train of hairpin packet motions was propagating coherently along the downstream and these structures induced the very large-scale motions in the turbulent boundary layer.
Keywords
Very Large-Scale Motion; Turbulent Boundary Layer;
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