1996 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 335-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Kerswell

Rigorous upper bounds on the viscous dissipation rate are identified for two commonly studied precessing fluid-filled configurations: an oblate spheroid and a long cylinder. The latter represents an interesting new application of the upper-bounding techniques developed by Howard and Busse. A novel ‘background’ method recently introduced by Doering & Constantin is also used to deduce in both instances an upper bound which is independent of the fluid's viscosity and the forcing precession rate. Experimental data provide some evidence that the observed viscous dissipation rate mirrors this behaviour at sufficiently high precessional forcing. Implications are then discussed for the Earth's precessional response.


Author(s):  
Yue Wang ◽  
Wei-Hua Cai ◽  
Tong-Zhou Wei ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
Feng-Chen Li

In order to investigate the polymer effect on grid turbulence, the experiments study on grid turbulence has been built based on Particle Image Velocimetry. The Newtonian fluid flow and 200ppm polymer solution flow in grid turbulence were carried out at different grid oscillating frequency, such as 5Hz, 7.5Hz, 10Hz and 12.5Hz. The experimental results show that the viscous dissipation rate and vortex vector ωz is smaller and more regular in space distribution in polymer solution case at grid oscillating frequency with 5Hz. It indicates that the existence of polymer additives inhibits enormously the viscous dissipation rate and vortex vector, but this phenomenon can be attenuated with the increase of grid oscillating frequency. From this result, it shows that there exists a critical Reynolds number for the inhibition of polymer effect, which is the same as that in turbulent channel flows with polymers. Then, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) has been used to extract coherent structures in grid turbulence. It is found that it needs 24 and 4 POD eigenfunctions to examine coherent structure in the Newtonian fluid and the polymer solution cases respectively at grid oscillating frequency with 10Hz. It suggests that the coherent structures can be inhibited due to the existence of polymers so as to the flow field to be more regular. But, with the increase of grid oscillating frequency, the number of POD eigenfunctions for the Newtonian fluid case and the polymer solution case respectively are approaching the same. Through this analysis, it can be also seen that the inhibition effect of polymers is close relation with the grid oscillating frequency.


1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 3189-3191 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Seifu ◽  
A. Nir ◽  
R. Semiat

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 2044-2058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán Martínez ◽  
Francisco Valero ◽  
Luis Vázquez

Abstract The authors have carried out an extensive characterization of the Martian mixed layer formed under convective conditions. The values of the mixed layer height, convective velocity scale, convective temperature scale, mean temperature standard deviation, mean horizontal and vertical velocity standard deviations, and mean turbulent viscous dissipation rate have been obtained during the strongest convective hours for the mixed layer. In addition, the existing database of the surface layer has been improved by recalculating some parameters (e.g., Monin–Obukhov length, friction velocity, or scale temperature) that had already been obtained in previous papers by other means and also by calculating new ones, such as the standard deviation of the vertical wind speed velocity, the turbulent viscous dissipation rate, and eddy transfer coefficients for momentum and heat. The Earth counterparts of all these magnitudes are also shown. In this paper, a comprehensive database concerning the whole convective planetary boundary layer on Mars is displayed, and a detailed terrestrial comparison is established. The inputs of this work are hourly in situ temperature, hourly in situ horizontal wind speed, and hourly simulated ground temperature for specific selected Sols of the Viking and Pathfinder landers. These data correspond to typical low and midlatitude northern summertime conditions, with weak prevailing winds. To handle this set of data, surface layer and mixed layer similarity theory have been used at the strongest convective hours. In addition, the inclusion of a parameterization of a molecular sublayer and prescribed values of the surface roughness has been considered.


2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (14) ◽  
pp. 3744-3749 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. Fossum ◽  
E. M. M. Wingstedt ◽  
B. A. P. Reif

2017 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 188-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Schneiders ◽  
Matthias Meinke ◽  
Wolfgang Schröder

The modulation of decaying isotropic turbulence by 45 000 spherical particles of Kolmogorov-length-scale size is studied using direct particle–fluid simulations, i.e. the flow field over each particle is fully resolved by direct numerical simulations of the conservation equations. A Cartesian cut-cell method is used by which the exchange of momentum and energy at the fluid–particle interfaces is strictly conserved. It is shown that the particles absorb energy from the large scales of the carrier flow while the small-scale turbulent motion is determined by the inertial particle dynamics. Whereas the viscous dissipation rate of the bulk flow is attenuated, the particles locally increase the level of dissipation due to the intense strain rate generated near the particle surfaces due to the crossing-trajectory effect. Analogously, the rotational motion of the particles decouples from the local fluid vorticity and strain-rate field at increasing particle inertia. The high level of dissipation is partially compensated by the transfer of momentum to the fluid via forces acting at the particle surfaces. The spectral analysis of the kinetic energy budget is supported by the average flow pattern about the particles showing a nearly universal strain-rate distribution. An analytical expression for the instantaneous rate of viscous dissipation induced by each particle is derived and subsequently verified numerically. Using this equation, the local balance of fluid kinetic energy around a particle of arbitrary shape can be precisely determined. It follows that two-way coupled point-particle models implicitly account for the particle-induced dissipation rate via the momentum-coupling terms; however, they disregard the actual length scales of the interaction. Finally, an analysis of the small-scale flow topology shows that the strength of vortex stretching in the bulk flow is mitigated due to the presence of the particles. This effect is associated with the energy conversion at small wavenumbers and the reduced level of dissipation at intermediate wavenumbers. Consequently, it damps the spectral flux of energy to the small scales.


2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenglun Alan Wei ◽  
Michael Tree ◽  
Phillip M. Trusty ◽  
Wenjun Wu ◽  
Shelly Singh-Gryzbon ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán Martínez ◽  
Francisco Valero ◽  
Luis Vázquez

Abstract The authors have estimated the diurnal evolution of Monin–Obukhov length, friction velocity, temperature scale, surface heat flux, eddy-transfer coefficients for momentum and heat, and turbulent viscous dissipation rate on the Martian surface layer for a complete sol belonging to the Pathfinder mission. All these magnitudes have been derived from in situ wind and temperature measurements at around 1.3-m height and simulated ground temperature (from 0600 sol 25 to 0600 sol 26). Previously, neither values of turbulent viscous dissipation rate and eddy-transfer coefficients from in situ measurements for the Martian surface layer nor diurnal evolutions of all the previously mentioned turbulent parameters for the Pathfinder had been obtained. Monin–Obukhov similarity theory for stratified surface layers has been applied to obtain the results. The values assigned to the surface roughness and the applied parameterization of the interfacial sublayer will be discussed in detail with respect to the results’ sensitivity to them. The authors have found similarities concerning the order of magnitude and qualitative behavior of Monin–Obukhov length, friction velocity, and turbulent viscous dissipation rate on Earth and on Mars. However, quantities directly related to the lower Martian atmospheric density and thermal inertia, like temperature scale and hence surface heat flux, range over different orders of magnitude. Additionally, turbulent exchanges in the first few meters have been found to be just two orders of magnitude higher than the molecular ones, whereas on Earth around five orders of magnitude separate both mechanisms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Frank ◽  
Junsung Lee ◽  
Jonas Lantz ◽  
Tino Ebbers ◽  
Shawn C. Shadden

Recent studies have correlated kinetic energy (KE) and viscous dissipation rate (VDR) in the left ventricle (LV) with heart health. These studies have relied on 4D-flow imaging or computational fluid dynamics modeling, which are able to measure, or compute, all 3 components (3C) of the blood flow velocity in 3 dimensional (3D) space. This richness of data is difficult to acquire clinically. Alternatively, color Doppler echocardiography (CDE) is more widespread clinically, but only measures a single radial component of velocity and typically only over a planar section. Because of this limitation, prior CDE-based studies have first reconstructed a second component of velocity in the measurement plane prior to evaluating VDR or KE. Herein, we propose 1C-based surrogates of KE and VDR that can be derived directly from the radial component of the flow velocity in the LV. Our results demonstrate that the proposed 1C-based surrogates of KE and VDR are generally as well-correlated with the true KE and VDR values as surrogates that use reconstructed 2C flow data. Moreover, the correlation of these 1C-based surrogates with the true values indicate that CDE (3D in particular) may be useful in evaluating these metrics in practice.


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