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Supersonic turbulent channel flows over spanwise-oriented grooves

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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0078691

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  1. National Key R& D Program of China [2019YFA0405204]
  2. Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Aerodynamics [SKLA-JBKYC190109]
  3. National Numerical Windtunnel (NNW) project

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In this study, the effects of spanwise-oriented grooves on the kinetic and thermodynamic statistics in a supersonic turbulent channel flow were investigated using direct numerical simulations. The results showed that these grooves induced compressive and expansive waves that traveled across the channel and influenced the distribution of vortices and streaks. These waves enhanced the fluctuations in temperature, density, and pressure, and also altered the correlations between velocity and temperature.
In the present study, we perform direct numerical simulations to study the influences of the spanwise-oriented grooves, which are emulated by the reasonably designed relaxed boundary conditions, on the kinetic and thermodynamic statistics in a supersonic turbulent channel flow at the Mach number of 1.5 and Reynolds number of 3000. The phase averaged flow fields show that the relaxed boundary induces compressive and expansive waves that travel across the whole channel and are reflected by the upper wall. These waves are isentropic in the average sense except in the viscous sublayer. In the near-wall region, vortices and streaks that constitute the self-sustaining cycles are less populated and less meandering, while in the outer region, especially near the channel center, the velocity divergence is as strong as the vorticity. The temperature, density, and pressure fluctuations are enhanced by these waves. The correlations between the velocity and temperature are altered, due to the counter effects caused by the vortical motions and isentropic waves.

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