Fractal, classical, and active grid turbulence: From production to decay
Fractal, classical, and active grid turbulence: From production to decay
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分形、经典和主动网格湍流:从产生到衰变
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2015
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R. J. Hearst
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Fractal, Classical, and Active Grid Turbulence: From Production to Decay Robert Jason Hearst Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of the Institute for Aerospace Studies University of Toronto 2015 The turbulence produced in the wake of fractal grids has been shown to exhibit peculiar decay properties that contrast with expectations for canonical grid turbulence flows. Such flows have been termed ‘non-equilibrium’ turbulence, and feature an unexpectedly high decay rate of turbulent kinetic energy and rapid growth of the normalized dissipation rate relative to canonical grid turbulence flows. The primary aim of this work is thus to reconcile modern fractal-generated grid turbulence with canonical grid turbulence via a series of wind tunnel experiments using hot-wire anemometry. The turbulence produced by a square-fractal-element grid, that is known to generate a significant non-equilibrium region in its wake, is compared to the turbulence produced by two regular square mesh grids and an active grid. The three passive grids all have the same blockage, while the blockage of the active grid is transient. The regular grids and active grid are used as benchmarks for comparison because they are known to produce quasi-equilibrium turbulence that matches many of the predictions of Richardson-Kolmogorov equilibrium turbulence phenomenology, save the existence of a k−5/3 spectrum in the inertial range. It is found that non-equilibrium and quasi-equilibrium turbulence are two phases of the same turbulence evolution downstream of turbulence generating grids. The flow begins as non-equilibrium turbulence close to the grid, and evolves downstream into quasiequilibrium turbulence. Evidence for this finding is provided by showing that sufficiently far downstream of the fractal geometry the flow returns to a quasi-equilibrium state with traditional decay rates and constant normalized dissipation scaling. It is found that the
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