Physics – Fluid Dynamics
Scientific paper
2010-05-20
Physics
Fluid Dynamics
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Scientific paper
Passive scalar dynamics in wall-bounded turbulence is studied via Direct Numerical Simulations of plane channel flow, for a friction Reynolds number $Re_* = 160$ and a Schmidt number $Sc=1$. Peculiar to the present research is that the spatial resolution reaches far beyond what has been employed in similar past studies. Our aim is to examine the statistics of the most dissipative events across the various layers of the channel flow, and to compare them to the homogeneous isotropic case, where the recent studies by Schumacher et al (2005) and Watanabe and Gotoh (2007) have described a range of scalar micro-scales that require extremely high spatial resolution to be properly resolved. Resolution effects are observed on integral-scale quantities such as the mean profiles of the scalar dissipation and its variance. By examining probability distributions, it is found that the finest resolution is essential for correctly computing small-scale statistics in the near-wall region of the channel. As expected, this high-resolution requirement extends outwards to the channel centerline, where the behavior of isotropic turbulence is recovered. However, high-intensity scalar dissipation events are overemphasized by marginal resolution near the wall, while they are underemphasized in the central region.
Galantucci Luca
Quadrio Maurizio
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