Direct Numerical Simulations of Laminar-Turbulent Transition for Transonic Boundary Layers initiated by Random Disturbances

AbstractThe role of radiative energy transfer in turbulent boundary layers is carefully analysed, focusing on the effect on temperature fluctuations and turbulent heat flux. The study is based on direct numerical simulations (DNS) of channel flows with hot and cold walls coupled to a Monte-Carlo method to compute the field of radiative power. In the conditions studied, the structure of the boundary layers is strongly modified by radiation. Temperature fluctuations and turbulent heat flux are reduced, and new radiative terms appear in their respective balance equations. It is shown that they counteract turbulence production terms. These effects are analysed under different conditions of Reynolds number and wall temperature. It is shown that collapsing of wall-scaled profiles is not efficient when radiation is considered. This drawback is corrected by the introduction of a radiation-based scaling. Finally, the significant impact of radiation on turbulent heat transfer is studied in terms of the turbulent Prandtl number. A model for this quantity, based on the new proposed scaling, is developed and validated.

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The influence of harmonic wall motion on transitional boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2014.591 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 760 ◽

pp. 63-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

M. J. Philipp Hack ◽

Tamer A. Zaki

Keyword(s):

Numerical Simulations ◽

Boundary Layers ◽

Wall Motion ◽

Direct Numerical Simulations ◽

Bypass Transition ◽

Power Requirement ◽

Optimal Values ◽

Wall Oscillation ◽

Transition Delay ◽

Secondary Instabilities

AbstractThe influence of harmonic spanwise wall motion on bypass transition in boundary layers is investigated using direct numerical simulations. It is shown that the appropriate choice of the forcing parameters can achieve a substantial stabilization of the laminar flow regime. However, an increase of the forcing amplitude or period beyond their optimal values diminishes the stabilizing effect, and leads to breakdown upstream of the unforced case. For the optimal wall-oscillation parameters, the reduction in propulsion power substantially outweighs the power requirement of the forcing. The mechanism of transition delay is examined in detail. Analysis of the pre-transitional streaks shows that the wall oscillation substantially reduces their average amplitude, and eliminates the most energetic streaks. As a result, the secondary instabilities that precede breakdown to turbulence are substantially weakened – an effect demonstrated by linear stability analyses of flow fields from direct numerical simulations. The outcome is transition delay owing to a significant reduction in the frequency of occurrence of turbulent spots and a downstream shift in their average inception location. Finally, it is shown that the efficiency of the forcing can be further improved by replacing the sinusoidal time dependence of the wall oscillation with a square wave.

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Direct numerical simulations of roughness-induced transition in supersonic boundary layers

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2011.417 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 693 ◽

pp. 28-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Suman Muppidi ◽

Krishnan Mahesh

Keyword(s):

Numerical Simulations ◽

Shear Layer ◽

Boundary Layers ◽

Plate Boundary ◽

Direct Numerical Simulations ◽

Transition To Turbulence ◽

Streamwise Vortices ◽

Mean Flow ◽

The Mean ◽

Near Wall

AbstractDirect numerical simulations are used to study the laminar to turbulent transition of a Mach 2.9 supersonic flat plate boundary layer flow due to distributed surface roughness. Roughness causes the near-wall fluid to slow down and generates a strong shear layer over the roughness elements. Examination of the mean wall pressure indicates that the roughness surface exerts an upward impulse on the fluid, generating counter-rotating pairs of streamwise vortices underneath the shear layer. These vortices transport near-wall low-momentum fluid away from the wall. Along the roughness region, the vortices grow stronger, longer and closer to each other, and result in periodic shedding. The vortices rise towards the shear layer as they advect downstream, and the resulting interaction causes the shear layer to break up, followed quickly by a transition to turbulence. The mean flow in the turbulent region shows a good agreement with available data for fully developed turbulent boundary layers. Simulations under varying conditions show that, where the shear is not as strong and the streamwise vortices are not as coherent, the flow remains laminar.

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Coupling PSE and FLUENT to Predict Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Boundary Layers

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.432.168 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 432 ◽

pp. 168-172

Author(s):

Y. Zhou ◽

Y.H. Fang

Keyword(s):

Flat Plate ◽

Boundary Layers ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Basic Flow ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

S Wave ◽

S Waves ◽

Turbulent Transition ◽

Transition Criterion ◽

Laminar Turbulent Transition

In this paper, the coupling method of PSE and FLUENT was experimented for predicting the laminar-turbulent transition. The software FLUENT was used to get the basic flow over a flat plate. A two-dimensional T-S wave and a pair of three-dimensional T-S waves were fed in at the entrance. The transition criterion was verified by DNS results. The availability of the coupling methodology has been evaluated.

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Investigation of species-mass diffusion in binary-species boundary layers at high pressure using direct numerical simulations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/jfm.2021.814 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 928 ◽

Author(s):

Takahiko Toki ◽

Josette Bellan

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

Numerical Simulations ◽

Boundary Layers ◽

Mass Flux ◽

Mass Fraction ◽

Soret Effect ◽

Streamwise Velocity ◽

Mass Diffusion ◽

Direct Numerical Simulations ◽

Temperature Fields

Direct numerical simulations of single-species and binary-species temporal boundary layers at high pressure are performed with special attention to species-mass diffusion. The working fluids are nitrogen or a mixture of nitrogen and methane. Mean profiles and turbulent fluctuations of mass fraction show that their qualitative characteristics are different from those of streamwise velocity and temperature, due to the different boundary conditions. In a wall-parallel plane near the wall, the streamwise velocity and temperature have streaky patterns and the fields are similar. However, the mass fraction field at the same location is different from the streamwise velocity and temperature fields indicating that species-mass diffusion is not similar to the momentum and thermal diffusion. In contrast, at the centre and near the edge of the boundary layer, the mass fraction and temperature fields have almost the same pattern, indicating that the similarity between thermal and species-mass diffusion holds away from the wall. The lack of similarity near the wall is traced to the Soret effect that induces a temperature-gradient-dependent species-mass flux. As a result, a new phenomenon has been identified for a non-isothermal binary-species system – uphill diffusion, which in its classical isothermal definition can only occur for three or more species. A quadrant analysis for the turbulent mass flux reveals that near the wall the Soret effect enhances the negative contributions of the quadrants. Due to the enhancement of the negative contributions, small species-concentration fluid tends to be trapped near the wall.

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