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JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
Volume 139, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
ASME
DOI: 10.1115/1.4035223
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DESC0004751]
- Department of Energy
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The principal purpose of this study is to understand the entropy generation rate in bypass, transitional, boundary-layer flow better. The experimental work utilized particle image velocimetry (PIV) and particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) to measure flow along a flat plate. The flow past the flat plate was under the influence of a negligible zero pressure gradient, followed by the installation of an adverse pressure gradient. Further, the boundary layer flow was artificially tripped to turbulence (called bypass transition) by means of elevated freestream turbulence. The entropy generation rate was seen to behave similar to that of published computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and direct numerical simulation (DNS) results. The observations from this work show the relative decrease of viscous contributions to entropy generation rate through the transition process, while the turbulent contributions of entropy generation rate greatly increase through the same transitional flow. A basic understanding of entropy generation rate over a flat plate is that a large majority of the contributions come within a wall coordinate less than 30. However, within the transitional region of the boundary layer, a trade-off between viscous and turbulent dissipation begins to take place where a significant amount of the entropy generation rate is seen out toward the boundary layer edge.
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