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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
卷 503, 期 -, 页码 345-355出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004007943
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The objective of this paper is to explain, in as much detail as possible, the physical mechanisms responsible for the reduction of skin friction in a microbubble-laden spatially developing turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate, for Re-theta = 1430. Our DNS results with microbubble volume fraction ranging from phi(v)=0.001 to 0.02 show that the presence of bubbles results in a local positive divergence of the fluid velocity, del.U > 0, creating a positive mean velocity normal to (and away from) the wall which, in turn, reduces the mean streamwise velocity and displaces the quasi-streamwise longitudinal vortical structures away from the wall. This displacement has two main effects: (1) it increases the spanwise gaps between the wall streaks associated with the sweep events and reduces the streamwise velocity in these streaks, thus reducing the skin friction by up to 20.2% for phi(v) = 0.02; and (ii) it moves the location of peak Reynolds stress production away from the wall to a zone of a smaller transverse gradient of the mean streamwise velocity (i.e. smaller mean shear), thus reducing the production rate of turbulence kinetic energy and enstrophy.
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