期刊
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 677, 期 -, 页码 1-38出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.41
关键词
boundary layer receptivity; boundary layer stability; transition to turbulence
资金
- UK EPSRC [EP/F045093/1]
- Royal Society of London
- CTR
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F045093/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F045093/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We investigate the influence of free-stream vortical disturbances on the evolution and instability of an incompressible laminar boundary layer, focusing on components of sufficiently long wavelength, which are known to penetrate into the boundary layer to generate streamwise elongated streaks. The free-stream disturbance is assumed to be sufficiently strong (but still of small amplitude) that the induced streaks acquire an O(1) streamwise velocity in the region where the boundary-layer thickness becomes comparable with the spanwise wavelength of the perturbation. The formation and evolution of the streaks are governed by the nonlinear unsteady boundary-region equations supplemented by appropriate upstream and far-field boundary conditions. This initial-boundary-value problem is solved for the special case where the free-stream disturbance is modelled by a pair of oblique vortical modes with the same frequency but opposite spanwise wavenumbers. Nonlinearity is found to inhibit the response. The nonlinear interaction alters the mean-flow profile appreciably, the shape of which is in quantitative agreement with experimental measurements. Wall-normal inflection points are detected in the instantaneous streamwise velocity profiles. The secondary stability analysis indicates that in the presence of free-stream disturbance with an intensity of 2.8%, the resulting streaky boundary layer becomes inviscidly unstable. The characteristic frequency, phase and group velocities, and growth rate of unstable sinuous modes are found to be in broad agreement with recent experiments. The present theoretical framework allows in principle a quantitative relation to be established between the characteristics of free-stream turbulence and the secondary instability, and this relation may be exploited to develop an efficient and physics-based approach for predicting bypass transition.
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