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Global energy fluxes in turbulent channels with flow control

Gatti, Davide, Cimarelli, Andrea, Hasegawa, Yosuke, Frohnapfel, Bettina and Quadrio, Maurizio 2018. Global energy fluxes in turbulent channels with flow control. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 857 , pp. 345-373. 10.1017/jfm.2018.749

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Abstract

This paper addresses the integral energy fluxes in natural and controlled turbulent channel flows, where active skin-friction drag reduction techniques allow a more efficient use of the available power. We study whether the increased efficiency shows any general trend in how energy is dissipated by the mean velocity field (mean dissipation) and by the fluctuating velocity field (turbulent dissipation). Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of different control strategies are performed at constant power input (CPI), so that at statistical equilibrium, each flow (either uncontrolled or controlled by different means) has the same power input, hence the same global energy flux and, by definition, the same total energy dissipation rate. The simulations reveal that changes in mean and turbulent energy dissipation rates can be of either sign in a successfully controlled flow. A quantitative description of these changes is made possible by a new decomposition of the total dissipation, stemming from an extended Reynolds decomposition, where the mean velocity is split into a laminar component and a deviation from it. Thanks to the analytical expressions of the laminar quantities, exact relationships are derived that link the achieved flow rate increase and all energy fluxes in the flow system with two wall-normal integrals of the Reynolds shear stress and the Reynolds number. The dependence of the energy fluxes on the Reynolds number is elucidated with a simple model in which the control-dependent changes of the Reynolds shear stress are accounted for via a modification of the mean velocity profile. The physical meaning of the energy fluxes stemming from the new decomposition unveils their inter-relations and connection to flow control, so that a clear target for flow control can be identified.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Engineering
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0022-1120
Date of Acceptance: 17 September 2018
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2021 01:11
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125799

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