Structure of anisotropic pulsations of the velocity and temperature in a developed turbulent boundary layer

The turbulence characteristics of very small (compared with the exterior scale of the flow) vortices in a developed turbulent boundary layer can be described with good accuracy by the Kolmogorov—Obukhov theory of locally isotropic turbulence. However, it does not apply to turbulent disturbances of large scale, for which the pulsations of the velocity and the temperature cannot be assumed to be isotropic. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the spectral and correlation characteristics of the turbulent field of the velocities and temperatures in the logarithmic sublayer of a gradientless flow for scales appreciably less than the boundary layer thickness but greater than the value below which the assumption of local isotropy holds. Attention is drawn to the part played by the interior turbulence scale (under the considered conditions, the distance to the wall), which distinguishes the hyperbolic law of variation of the spectrum characteristic of anisotropic pulsations of the velocity and the temperature and the five-thirds power law for isotropic vortices. Comparison of the derived relations with the available experimental data makes it possible not only to verify the validity of these laws but also to determine the values of the universal constants in them. The stability of the obtained laws with respect to disturbances localized in the wall region (roughness, blowing and suction, polymer additives, etc.) is discussed.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 47–56, January–February, 1984.I am very grateful to A. M. Yaglom for his interest in the work and for discussing the results.     

Higher-order moments and spectra of velocity fluctuations in adverse-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer

The characteristics of turbulent boundary layer flows with adverse pressure gradients (APGs) differ significantly from those of canonical boundary layers. We have investigated the effects of an APG on the higher-order moments and spectra of velocity fluctuations. The local wavelet spectra reveal a large difference in energy-containing frequencies of streamwise and wall-normal components of turbulent velocities, which results in smaller Reynolds shear stress production. Moreover, an analysis of bispectra in the Fourier space has revealed that non-local interactions, consisting of streamwise fluctuating velocity with low frequency and wall-normal velocity with high frequency, occur in the APG flow. However, the small-scale motions are not affected by imposing an APG.     

Ignition of hydrogen in a turbulent boundary layer on a plate

The ignition of hydrogen blown into a turbulent supersonic boundary layer on a flat plate is investigated numerically. It is assumed that the mixture consists of six chemically active components H, O, OH, H₂O, O₂, H₂ and inert nitrogen N₂. The boundary layer is divided into outer and inner regions, for which different expressions for the coefficients of turbulent transport are used. The influence of pulsations on the rates of the chemical reactions, and also the back reaction of the chemical processes on the mechanism of turbulent transfer are not taken into account. The surface of the plate is assumed to be absolutely catalytic with respect to the recombination reactions of the H and O atoms. The influence of the blowing intensity, the Mach number in the outer flow, and the pressure on the ignition delay is analyzed. The possibility of effective porous cooling of the surface when there is combustion in the boundary layer is demonstrated.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 33–40, November–December, 1979.I thank V. G. Gromov and V. A. Levin for their interest in the work.     

Energy-balance equation for turbulent pulsations in the theory of the free turbulent boundary layer

Semiempirical expressions are proposed for the coefficient of turbulent viscosity and for the scale of turbulence in the equations for the free turbulent boundary layer in an incompressible fluid, these equations consisting of the equation of continuity, the equations of motion, and the equation for the average energy balance in the turbulent pulsations. The advantage of the expressions over the existing ones is that the two empirical constants in the equations have nearly the same values for circular and plane turbulent streams and also for a turbulent boundary layer at the edge of a semiinfinite homogeneous flow with a stationary fluid. The mean-energy distribution and the mean energy of the turbulent pulsations computed in this paper agree well with the experimental values.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 75–79, November–December, 1970.     

Surface-attaching probabilities for particles in a turbulent flat plate boundary layer

Measurements of the positional variation of surface-attaching probabilities for 6.77μ uncharged monodisperse uranine aerosol particles on a stainless steel plate are presented for a turbulent flat plate boundary layer. The results presented include results for conditions in which the attaching probability is unity and less than unity. It was found that the variation of the attaching probability was invariant with position once the boundary layer became fully turbulent.     

A quasi-similarity analysis of the turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate

The partial differential equation of the boundary layer on a flat plate are simplified by using the universal variables for turbulent flow. For laminar flow this gives boundary layer having a finite thickness and a friction coefficient differing by a few percent from the Blasius value. For a turbulent flow a differential equation for the velocity distribution is obtained with a parameter which varies slowly with the streamwise coordinate. The numerical value of this parameter is determined as an eigenvalue of the differential equations giving a velocity profile which evolves as the boundary layer thickens. Numerical calculations using a simple eddy viscosity model gave results in very good agreement with experiment.     

Displacement in the turbulent boundary layer on a permeable plate with supercritical injection

The displacement thickness in a turbulent boundary layer is determined for supercritical injection parameters. Experimental relations between the displacement thickness and the injection parameter are obtained for air, helium, and freon-12 injected into air.     

Heat and mass exchange in a turbulent boundary layer on a disintegrating plate surface

Heat- and mass-exchange processes in a turbulent boundary layer on a disintegrating surface during aerodynamic heating are investigated. The flow in the layer is considered frozen, and the gas composition is determined only by the reactions on the disintegration surface. The problem is solved under the usual assumptions for turbulent-boundary-layer theory. Computation of the disintegration of an asbestos-textolite surface is presented as an example.     

Higher-order and length-scale statistics of velocity and temperature fluctuations in turbulent boundary layer along a heated vertical flat plate

Time-developing direct numerical simulation (DNS) was performed to clarify the higher-order turbulent behaviors in the thermally-driven boundary layers both in air and water along a heated vertical flat plate. The predicted statistics of the heat transfer rates and the higher-order turbulent behaviors such as skewness factors, flatness factors and spatial correlation coefficients of the velocity and temperature fluctuations in the natural-convection boundary layer correspond well with those obtained from experiments for space-developing flows. The numerical results reveal that the turbulent structures of the buoyancy-driven boundary layers are mainly controlled by the fluid motions in the outer region of the boundary layer, and these large-scale structures are strongly connected with the generation of turbulence in the thermally-driven boundary layers, in accordance with the actual observations for space-developing flows. Moreover, to specify the turbulence structures of the boundary layers, the cross-correlation coefficients and the characteristic length scales are examined for the velocity and thermal fields. Consequently, it is found that with a slight increase in freestream velocity, the cross-correlation coefficient for the Reynolds shear stress and turbulent heat flux increases for opposing flow and decreases for aiding flow, and the integral scales for the velocity and temperature fields become larger for opposing flow and smaller for aiding flow compared with those for the pure natural-convection boundary layer.     

Instability waves in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate

Coherent structures and the bursting phenomena in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer play a very important role in determining the characteristics of the boundary layer. Yet the nature and the origin of the coherent structures are unclear until now. In this paper, nonlinear stability calculations for the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer have been made. It was found that there do exist instability waves which may be responsible for the coherent structures. The project is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.     

Take-off threshold velocity of solid particles lying under a turbulent boundary layer

The take-off of free solid particles by wind erosion has been investigated. A preliminary bibliographic study (Foucaut and Stanislas 1995) has enabled an analysis of the Bagnold criterion (1941) to be made and its accordance with the results obtained by White (1982) to be shown, thus leading to a semi-empirical model. This initial study led to a more judicious choice of the primary parameters, allowing a more physical representation of the threshold velocity. In the present study, the criterion validation was carried out in a specific boundary layer wind tunnel, by means of a direct measurement of the threshold velocity. The basic idea was to increase the wind tunnel velocity slowly and linearly and to perform an optical detection of the first take-offs.List of symbols D _p particle diameter - D _Pref reference diameter - _p D _p /D _pref - g gravity - H shape factor = (/) - h ⁺ roughness parameter ( =u D _p /2) - R _f =u D _p / - R _x u _e x/v - û u _e /v - u ⁺ flow velocity ( =u/u ) - u _e external velocity - u _elim external threshold velocity - û _e u _e /u _elim - u friction velocity - u ^* threshold friction velocity - u _tref reference velocity - ^* u ^*/u ^ref - y ⁺ yu / - _p ( _p –)/ - boundary layer thickness - displacement thickness - dynamic viscosity - v kinematic viscosity - momentum thickness - fluid density - _p particle density - standard deviation of particle diameter - shear stress Research carried out at Ecole des Mines de Douai     

Numerical prediction of turbulent boundary layer noise from a sharp-edged flat plate

An efficient hybrid uncorrelated wall plane waves–boundary element method (UWPW-BEM) technique is proposed to predict the flow-induced noise from a structure in low Mach number turbulent flow. Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are used to estimate the turbulent boundary layer parameters such as convective velocity, boundary layer thickness, and wall shear stress over the surface of the structure. The spectrum of the wall pressure fluctuations is evaluated from the turbulent boundary layer parameters and by using semi-empirical models from literature. The wall pressure field underneath the turbulent boundary layer is synthesized by realizations of uncorrelated wall plane waves (UWPW). An acoustic BEM solver is then employed to compute the acoustic pressure scattered by the structure from the synthesized wall pressure field. Finally, the acoustic response of the structure in turbulent flow is obtained as an ensemble average of the acoustic pressures due to all realizations of uncorrelated plane waves. To demonstrate the hybrid UWPW-BEM approach, the self-noise generated by a flat plate in turbulent flow with Reynolds number based on chord Re_c = 4.9 × 10⁵ is predicted. The results are compared with those obtained from a large eddy simulation (LES)-BEM technique as well as with experimental data from literature.     

Exact and numerical responses of a plate under a turbulent boundary layer excitation

The aim of this paper is the analysis of the predictive capabilities of the deterministic methodologies when facing the problem of a plate excited by a stochastic pressure distribution due to a turbulent boundary layer (TBL). A full analytical solution has been assembled by considering a simply supported rectangular plate wetted on one side by a TBL. This reference exact solution, developed by using a standard separable variable model, has been used as test case for comparing the approximate solutions coming from the adoption of a numerical scheme by using discrete coordinates. The numerical algorithm has been built by using a standard finite element modal approach. The approximations introduced are thoroughly discussed and analysed; they refer to the meshing condition and the transformation of the distributed stochastic load. The application of a novel numerical procedure named as Asymptotical Scaled Modal Analysis is presented too. This innovative numerical scheme allows the analysis of the structural response of a generic plane operator in the whole frequency range, which is not always amenable by exact solutions; further and equally important, it is associated to a reduction of the computational cost. The work demonstrates that some numerical advances in the prediction of the random structural responses are feasible still using standard finite element modal inputs, without increasing the computational costs.     

Effect of turbulence of external flow on the turbulent boundary layer at a plate

In [1, 2] turbulence of the external flow was taken into account by specifying the turbulent energy at the external boundary of the boundary layer on integrating the energy-balance equation for the turbulence. In [3] a special correction that allowed the turbulence of the external flow to be taken into account was introduced in determining the mixture path. In [4, 5] the turbulent energy calculated from the energy-balance equation of the turbulence was added to the energy induced by turbulence of the external flow, the energy distribution of the induced turbulence being specified using an empirically selected function. In [6, 7] a method of taking into account the effect of turbulence of the external flow on a layer of mixing and a jet was proposed. In the present work, this method is applied to the boundary layer at a plate.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 3, pp. 26–31, May–June, 1977.     

Some regularities of the turbulent pressure field in the boundary layer on a flat plate

In this paper we present the results of calculations of the space correlations of the random pressure field which acts on the surface of a flat plate out of a fully developed turbulent boundary layer. Calculations are performed on the basis of available experimental data on the cross-spectral density of the turbulent pressure fluctuations. It is found that the spacetime correlations have an explicitly expressed form similarity. This is used as a basis for deriving a simple approximate relation between the modulus of the normalized cross-spectral density, the energy spectrum, and the maxima of the space-time correlation coefficient. The results of elementary calculations performed on the basis of the obtained relation are shown to be almost identical with those obtained on a digital computer from exact formulas.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 116–120, May–June, 1969.The author is indebted to Yu. G. Blyudze for useful discussions of the results of this paper.     

Kinematics of a turbulent boundary layer

In the article an attempt is made, within the framework of the Navier-Stokes equations, to describe the field of the instantaneous velocities of a liquid in the region of a turbulent flow near the wall. It is assumed that the velocities of the liquid are determined by the field of the eddies arising in regions of ejections under the action of pressure pulses in the region near the wall.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 5, pp. 34–40, September–October, 1973.