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Turbulence profiles from a smooth flat-plate turbulent boundary layer at high Reynolds number

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EXPERIMENTAL THERMAL AND FLUID SCIENCE
卷 40, 期 -, 页码 140-149

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2012.02.009

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Turbulence; Boundary layer; High Reynolds number; Measurements

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  1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  2. Office of Naval Research

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Much is known about smooth-flat-plate turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) at laboratory-scale Reynolds numbers because of a wealth of experimental data. However, smooth-flat-plate TBL data are much less common at the high Reynolds numbers typical of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic applications (Re-x similar to 10(8)-10(10)), and at the even higher Reynolds numbers of many geophysical flows. This paper presents new LDV-measured profiles of the stream-wise velocity variance, the wall-normal velocity variance, and the Reynolds shear stress from the TBL that formed on a smooth flat plate at Karman numbers from 15,000 to 60,000 (Rex from 75 million to 220 million). The experiments were conducted in the William B. Morgan Large Cavitation Channel on a polished (k(+) < 0.2) flat-plate test model 12.9 m long and 3.05 m wide at water flow speeds up to 20 m s(-1). The TBL on the model developed in a mild favorable pressure gradient having an acceleration parameter K similar to 10(-10). When plotted with the usual inner and outer scalings, the stream-wise velocity variance profiles display a Reynolds number dependence that is consistent with prior lower Reynolds-number zero-pressure-gradient TBL measurements. However, using the same normalizations, the profiles of wall-normal velocity variance and Reynolds shear stress are found to be Reynolds number independent, or nearly so, when experimental uncertainties are considered. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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