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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2012.36.8.839

Process of Hairpin Vortex Packet Generation in Channel Flows  

Kim, Kyoung-Youn (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanbat Nat'l Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.36, no.8, 2012 , pp. 839-847 More about this Journal
Abstract
Numerical simulations for channel flows with $Re_{\tau}$ = 180, 395 and 590 have been performed to investigate the hairpin packet formation process in wall-bounded turbulent flows. Using direct numerical simulation databases, the initial flow fields are given by the conditionally averaged flow field with the second quadrant event specified at the buffer layer. By tracking the initial vortex development, the change in the initial vortex to an ${\Omega}$-shaped vortex and th generation of a secondary hairpin vortex were found to occur with time scales based on the wall units. In addition, at the time when the initial vortex has grown to the channel center, the inclination angle of the hairpin vortex packet is approximately $12{\sim}14^{\circ}$, which is similar for all three Reynolds numbers. Finally, numerical simulations of the evolution of two adjacent hairpin vortices have been performed to examine the interaction between the adjacent vortex packets.
Keywords
Turbulent Channel Flow; Hairpin Vortex Packet; Autogeneration Process; Large-Scale Motion;
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