Self-sustaining processes at all scales in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows.
Self-sustaining processes at all scales in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows.
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壁面湍流剪切流中所有尺度的自持过程。
DOI:
10.1098/rsta.2016.0088
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发表时间:
2017
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Cossu C
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Cossu C
We collect and discuss the results of our recent studies which show evidence of the existence of a whole family of self-sustaining motions in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows with scales ranging from those of buffer-layer streaks to those of large-scale and very-large-scale motions in the outer layer. The statistical and dynamical features of this family of self-sustaining motions, which are associated with streaks and quasi-streamwise vortices, are consistent with those of Townsend’s attached eddies. Motions at each relevant scale are able to sustain themselves in the absence of forcing from larger- or smaller-scale motions by extracting energy from the mean flow via a coherent lift-up effect. The coherent self-sustaining process is embedded in a set of invariant solutions of the filtered Navier–Stokes equations which take into full account the Reynolds stresses associated with the residual smaller-scale motions.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Toward the development of high-fidelity models of wall turbulence at large Reynolds number’.