Phase-relationships between scales in the perturbed turbulent boundary layer |
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Authors: | I. Jacobi B. J. McKeon |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;2. Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA |
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Abstract: | The phase-relationship between large-scale motions and small-scale fluctuations in a non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layer was investigated. A zero-pressure-gradient flat plate turbulent boundary layer was perturbed by a short array of two-dimensional roughness elements, both statically, and under dynamic actuation. Within the compound, dynamic perturbation, the forcing generated a synthetic very-large-scale motion (VLSM) within the flow. The flow was decomposed by phase-locking the flow measurements to the roughness forcing, and the phase-relationship between the synthetic VLSM and remaining fluctuating scales was explored by correlation techniques. The general relationship between large- and small-scale motions in the perturbed flow, without phase-locking, was also examined. The synthetic large scale cohered with smaller scales in the flow via a phase-relationship that is similar to that of natural large scales in an unperturbed flow, but with a much stronger organizing effect. Cospectral techniques were employed to describe the physical implications of the perturbation on the relative orientation of large- and small-scale structures in the flow. The correlation and cospectral techniques provide tools for designing more efficient control strategies that can indirectly control small-scale motions via the large scales. |
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Keywords: | Turbulent boundary layers very-large-scale-motions |
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