Energy dissipation caused by boundary layer instability at vanishing viscosity
Energy dissipation caused by boundary layer instability at vanishing viscosity
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粘度消失时边界层不稳定性引起的能量耗散
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
K. Schneider
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作者:
Natacha Nguyen van yen;Matthias Waidmann;R. Klein;M. Farge;K. Schneider
A qualitative explanation for the scaling of energy dissipation by high-Reynolds-number fluid flows in contact with solid obstacles is proposed in the light of recent mathematical and numerical results. Asymptotic analysis suggests that it is governed by a fast, small-scale Rayleigh–Tollmien–Schlichting instability with an unstable range whose lower and upper bounds scale as $Re^{3/8}$ and $Re^{1/2}$ , respectively. By linear superposition, the unstable modes induce a boundary vorticity flux of order $Re^{1}$ , a key ingredient in detachment and drag generation according to a theorem of Kato. These predictions are confirmed by numerically solving the Navier–Stokes equations in a two-dimensional periodic channel discretized using compact finite differences in the wall-normal direction, and a spectral scheme in the wall-parallel direction.