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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 929, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.815
Keywords
turbulence theory; turbulence simulation; turbulent boundary layers
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- JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H06339, JP19H00641, JP18K03923]
- Japan Agency for Marin-Earth Science and Technology [hp190108, hp20107]
- Tohoku University through the HPCI System Research project [hp190108, hp20107]
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This paper extends Kolmogorov's local similarity hypotheses to include the influence of mean shear on the statistics of fluctuating velocity. The moments of the velocity gradients are determined by the local turbulent energy dissipation rate, kinematic viscosity, and parameter gamma. The anisotropy of moments decreases approximately in proportion to gamma when gamma is small in an appropriate sense.
This paper presents an extension of Kolmogorov's local similarity hypotheses of turbulence to include the influence of mean shear on the statistics of the fluctuating velocity in the dissipation range of turbulent shear flow. According to the extension, the moments of the fluctuating velocity gradients are determined by the local mean rate of the turbulent energy dissipation per unit mass, kinematic viscosity nu and parameter gamma = S(nu/ )(1/2), provided that gamma is small in an appropriate sense, where S is an appropriate norm of the local gradients of the mean flow gamma The statistics of the moments are nearly isotropic for sufficiently small gamma, and the anisotropy of moments decreases approximately in proportion to gamma. This paper also presents a report on the second-order moments of the fluctuating velocity gradients in direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of turbulent channel flow (TCF) with the friction Reynolds number Re-tau up to approximate to 8000. In the TCF, there is a range y where gamma scales approximately alpha y(-1/2), and the anisotropy of the moments of the gradients decreases with y nearly in proportion to y(-1/2), where y is the distance from the wall. The theoretical conjectures proposed in the first part are in good agreement with the DNS results.
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