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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2781596
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- EPSRC [EP/D050871/1, EP/D050871/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Space-time evolution of a flow in a semi-infinite circular pipe {x >= 0,y(2)+z(2)<= R(2)} is investigated via direct numerical simulations. The unsteady turbulent inflow velocity u parallel to(x=0) is extracted from a streamwise-periodic auxiliary simulation. It is shown that at t > 0 spatially evolving flow does not depend on initial state u parallel to(t=0). It takes the form of spatially periodic flow of the auxiliary simulation with superimposed spatially growing perturbation. The amplitude of the perturbation increases exponentially with distance from the inlet. The growth rate is estimated for the considered Reynolds number. The obtained results suggest that the memory of the inflow boundary condition in spatial simulations is evident for a significant distance from the inlet. In the considered case an almost periodic flow is established (with less than 1% relative deviation from the periodicity) over a distance as large as 70 pipe radii. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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