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Turbulent activity in the near-wall region of adverse pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers

Taygun R. Gungor·Yvan Maciel·Ayse G. Gungor
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Two direct numerical simulation (DNS) databases are investigated to understand the effect of the outer-layer turbulence on the inner layer's structures and energy transfer mechanisms. The first DNS database is the non-equilibrium adverse-pressure-gradient (APG) turbulence boundary layer (TBL) of Gungor et al. (2022). Its Reynolds number and the inner-layer pressure gradient parameter reach above 8000 and 10, respectively. The shape factor spans between 1.4 and 3.3, which indicates the flow has various velocity defect situations. The second database is the same flow as the first one but the outer layer turbulence is artificially eliminated in this flow. Turbulence is removed above 0.15 local boundary layer thickness. For the analysis, we chose four streamwise positions with small, moderate, large, and very-large velocity defect. We compare the wall-normal distribution of Reynolds stresses, two-point correlations and spectral distributions of energy, production and pressure strain. The results show that the inner layer turbulence can sustain itself when the outer-layer turbulence does not exist regardless of the velocity defect or the pressure gradient. The two-point correlations of both cases show that outer large-scale structures affect the inner layer structures significantly. The streamwise extent of the correlation contours scales with pressure-viscous units. This shows the importance of the pressure gradient's effect on the inner-layer structures. The spectral distributions demonstrate that the energy transfer mechanisms are probably the same in the inner layer regardless of the velocity defect, which suggests the near-wall cycle may exist even in very-large defect APG TBLs where the mean shear in the inner layer is considerably lower than small-defect APG TBLs.

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Taygun R. Gungor, Yvan Maciel, Ayse G. Gungor. 2024-02-15. Turbulent activity in the near-wall region of adverse pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596%2F2753%2F1%2F012005

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