A Theoretical Closure for Turbulent Flows Near Walls

Details A Theoretical Closure for Turbulent Flows Near Walls A Theoretical Closure for Turbulent Flows Near Walls

2010-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/1001.2353v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

23 pages, 5 figures

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This paper proposes a simple new closure principle for turbulent shear flows. The turbulent flow field is divided into an outer and an inner region. The inner region is made up of a log-law region and a wall layer. The wall layer is viewed in terms of the well known inrush-sweep-burst sequence observed since 1967. It is modelled as a transient laminar sub-boundary layer, which obeys the Stokes solution for an impulsively started flat plate. The wall layer may also be modelled with a steady state solution by adding a damping function to the log-law. Closure is achieved by matching the unsteady and steady state solutions at the edge of the wall layer. This procedure in effect feeds information about the transient coherent structures back into the time-averaged solution and determines theoretically the numerical coefficient of the logarithmic law of the wall The method gives a new technique for writing accurate wall functions, valid for all Reynolds numbers, in computer fluid dynamics (CFD) programmes. Keywords: Reynolds equations, modelling, closure technique, wall layer, log-law, CFD.

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