Towards a Greater Understanding of Turbulent Skin-Friction Reduction
Paper no. FEDSM2002-31060 pp. 1449-1454
doi:10.1115/FEDSM2002-31060
ASME 2002 Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Division Conference
(FEDSM2002)
July 14–18, 2002 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sponsor: Fluids Engineering Division
July 14–18, 2002 , Montreal, Quebec, Canada Sponsor: Fluids Engineering Division
Volume 1: Fora, Parts A and B
ISBN: 0-7918-3615-0
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Measurements have been made in a turbulent boundary layer modified by flow aligned vertical (sub-boundary layer) elements. Comparisons between the coherent structure (near-wall and outer-layer region) for both modified and canonical cases have been conducted in order to better understand the mechanism of skin friction reduction. Thus far we can report a modified near-wall convection velocity obeying inner scaling and a reduced spread of correlated events away from the wall. The outer-layer appears to be characterised by large-scale arch-like structures which produce a velocity field consistent with the heads of lifted near-wall horseshoe vortices. The modified case shows reduced convection velocity, increased frequency of occurrence and increased entrainment for this type of outer-layer event.
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