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Azimuthal structure of turbulence in high Reynolds number pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2008

SEAN C. C. BAILEY ,
MARCUS HULTMARK ,
ALEXANDER J. SMITS  and
MICHAEL P. SCHULTZ
SEAN C. C. BAILEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
MARCUS HULTMARK
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
ALEXANDER J. SMITS
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
MICHAEL P. SCHULTZ
Affiliation:
Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402, USA
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Abstract

Two-point hot-wire measurements of streamwise velocity were performed in the logarithmic and wake regions of turbulent pipe flow for Reynolds numbers, based on pipe diameter, ranging from 7.6 × 104 to 8.3 × 106 at four wall-normal positions with azimuthal probe separation. The azimuthal correlations were found to be consistent with the presence of very large-scale coherent regions of low-wavenumber, low-momentum fluid observed in previous studies of wall-bounded flows and were found to be independent of changing Reynolds number and surface roughness effects. At the edge of the logarithmic layer the azimuthal scale determined from the correlations was found to be similar to that observed for channel flows but larger than that observed for boundary layers, inconsistent with the concept of a universal logarithmic region. As the wall-normal position increased outside the logarithmic layer, there was a decrease in azimuthal scale relative to that of channel flow. Using cross-spectral analysis, high-wavenumber motion was found to grow azimuthally with wall-normal distance at a faster rate than the low-wavenumber motions.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 615 , 25 November 2008 , pp. 121 - 138
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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