Journal
FLOW TURBULENCE AND COMBUSTION
Volume 100, Issue 4, Pages 1081-1099Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-018-9920-8
Keywords
Wall turbulence; Drag reduction; Large-scale structure
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SPP 1881]
- Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wurttemberg
- DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
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In the present work we describe how turbulent skin-friction drag reduction obtained through near-wall turbulence manipulation modifies the spectral content of turbulent fluctuations and Reynolds shear stress with focus on the largest scales. Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of turbulent channels up to R e (tau) = 1000 are performed in which drag reduction is achieved either via artificially removing wall-normal turbulent fluctuations in the vicinity of the wall or via streamwise-travelling waves of spanwise wall velocity. This near-wall turbulence manipulation is shown to modify turbulent spectra in a broad range of scales throughout the whole channel. Above the buffer layer, the observed changes can be predicted, exploiting the vertical shift of the logarithmic portion of the mean streamwise velocity profile, which is a classic performance measure for wall roughness or drag-reducing riblets. A simple model is developed for predicting the large-scale contribution to turbulent fluctuation and Reynolds shear stress spectra in drag-reduced turbulent channels in which a flow control acts at the wall. Any drag-reducing control that successfully interacts with large scales should deviate from the predictions of the present model, making it a useful benchmark for assessing the capability of a control to affect large scales directly.
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