Can We Ever Rely on Results from Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows Without Direct Measurements of Wall Shear Stress?

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Nagib ◽  
Chris Christophorou ◽  
Jean-Daniel Ruedi ◽  
Peter Monkewitz ◽  
Jens Osterlund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Direct Measurements ◽  
Wall Shear

Wall Shear Stress in Turbulent Pipe Flow

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Gårdhagen ◽  
Jonas Lantz ◽  
Fredrik Carlsson ◽  
Matts Karlsson
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Intima Media Thickness ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Laminar Flows ◽  
Turbulent Pipe Flow ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Wall Shear

Low and/or oscillatory Wall Shear Stress (WSS) has been correlated with elevated risk for increased intima media thickness and atherosclerosis in several studies during the last decades [1, 2]. Most of the studies have addressed laminar flows, in which the oscillations mainly are due to the pulsating nature of blood flow. Turbulent flows however show significant spatial and temporal fluctuations although the mean flow is steady.

Direct Force Wall Shear Measurements in Pressure-Driven Three-Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layers

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. McAllister ◽  
F. J. Pierce ◽  
M. H. Tennant
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Turbulent Boundary Layers ◽  
Direct Measurements ◽  
Stress Directions ◽  
Wall Flow ◽  
Wall Shear ◽  
Pressure Driven

Unique, simultaneous direct measurements of the magnitude and direction of the local wall shear stress in a pressure-driven three-dimensional turbulent boundary layer are presented. The flow is also described with an oil streak wall flow pattern, a map of the wall shear stress-wall pressure gradient orientations, a comparison of the wall shear stress directions relative to the directions of the nearest wall velocity as measured with a typical, small boundary layer directionally sensitive claw probe, as well as limiting wall streamline directions from the oil streak patterns, and a comparison of the freestream streamlines and the wall flow streamlines. A review of corrections for direct force sensing shear meters for two-dimensional flows is presented with a brief discussion of their applicability to three-dimensional devices.

A Technique for the Measurement of Wall Shear Stress Based on Micro Fabricated Hot-Film Sensor

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuya Sawada ◽  
Osamu Terashima ◽  
Yasuhiko Sakai ◽  
Kouji Nagata ◽  
Mitsuhiro Shikida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Temporal Resolution ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Film Sensor ◽  
Wall Shear ◽  
Hot Film ◽  
Hot Film Sensor

The objective of this study is to establish a technique for accurately measuring the wall shear stress in turbulent flows using a micro-fabricated hot-film sensor. Previously, we developed a hot-film sensor with a flexible polyimide-film substrate. This sensor can be attached to curved walls and be used in various situations. Furthermore, the sensor has a 20-μm-wide, heated thin metal film. However, the temporal resolution of this hot-film sensor is not very high owing to its substrate’s high heat capacity. Consequently, its performance is inadequate for measuring the wall shear stress “fluctuations” in turbulent flows. Therefore, we have developed another type of hot-film sensor in which the substrate is replaced with silicon, and a cavity has been introduced under the hot-film for reducing heat loss from the sensor and achieving high temporal resolution. Furthermore, for improving the sensor’s spatial resolution, the width of the hot-film is decreased to 10 μm. The structure of the hot-film’s pattern and the flow-detection mechanism are similar to those of the previous sensor. Experimental results show that new hot-film sensor works as expected and has better temporal resolution than the previous hot-film sensor. As future work, we will measure the wall shear stress for a turbulent wall-jet and discuss the relationship between a large-scale coherent vortex structure and wall shear stress based on data obtained using the new hot-film sensor.

A New Probe for Measurement of Velocity and Wall Shear Stress in Unsteady, Reversing Flow

1981 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. V. Westphal ◽  
J. K. Eaton ◽  
J. P. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Solid Wall ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Streamwise Velocity ◽  
Tracer Technique ◽  
Wall Shear ◽  
Initial Results ◽  
Average Wall Shear Stress

Separated turbulent flows exhibit instantaneous reversals of flow direction which make measurement of the velocity field extremely difficult. A three-wire heat-tracer technique has been employed to measure streamwise velocity of a low-speed air flow very near a smooth, solid wall; the wall shear stress is calculated using a similarity hypothesis. Initial results presented show the evolution of average wall shear stress and rms fluctuation intensity of wall shear stress in a reattaching 2-D flow downstream of a backward-facing step.

Can We Rescue Thermal Wall Shear Stress Sensing?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Assadian ◽  
Rustom B. Bhiladvala
Keyword(s):  
Shear Stress ◽  
Wall Shear Stress ◽  
Turbulent Flows ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
Single Element ◽  
Film Sensor ◽  
Wall Shear ◽  
Stress Sensing ◽  
Heater Length ◽  
Hot Film

The use of single flush-mounted thin-films for thermal sensing of wall shear stress fluctuations in turbulent flows has seen a decline, in spite of their non-intrusiveness, and the availability of microfabrication technologies to create very small films. The limitations of such single-element sensors are quite severe—their spatial resolution is not determined by their size alone, but modified by substrate heat conduction which creates variations in the effective sensor size (heat exchange area), dependent on strength and timescale of the fluctuations. Here a two-element design is investigated—with the hot-film sensor element surrounded by an electrically isolated guard heater film maintained at the same temperature as the sensor, but controlled by a separate anemometer circuit. Numerical studies are used to examine such guard heater designs over a range of shear stress values. The results show that if the sensor film center-location is biased towards the downstream end (75% and 65% of guard-heater length for water and air, respectively), with an appropriately-sized guard heater, 95% of the total heat generated in the sensing film can be transferred directly to the fluid, for strong turbulent fluctuations (Peclet number Pe > 8000) when the working fluid is water.

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