Journal
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 717, Issue -, Pages 293-321Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.573
Keywords
compressible turbulence; shock waves; turbulent flows
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- US Department of Energy under the SciDAC program
- US Air Force under the Aerothermodynamics and Turbulence program
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The interaction between isotropic turbulence and a normal shock wave is investigated through a series of direct numerical simulations at different Reynolds numbers and mean and turbulent Mach numbers. The computed data are compared to experiments and linear theory, showing that the amplification of turbulence kinetic energy across a shock wave is described well using linearized dynamics. The post-shock anisotropy of the turbulence, however, is qualitatively different from that predicted by linear analysis. The jumps in mean density and pressure are lower than the non-turbulent Rankine-Hugoniot results by a factor of the square of the turbulence intensity. It is shown that the dissipative scales of turbulence return to isotropy within about 10 convected Kolmogorov time scales, a distance that becomes very small at high Reynolds numbers. Special attention is paid to the 'broken shock' regime of intense turbulence, where the shock can be locally replaced by smooth compressions. Grid convergence of the probability density function of the shock jumps proves that this effect is physical, and not an artefact of the numerical scheme.
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