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A model for large-scale structures in turbulent shear flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Andrew C. Poje  and
J. L. Lumley
Andrew C. Poje
Affiliation:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14855, USA Present address: IGPP, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA.
J. L. Lumley
Affiliation:
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14855, USA
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Abstract

A procedure based on energy stability arguments is presented as a method for extracting large-scale, coherent structures from fully turbulent shear flows. By means of two distinct averaging operators, the instantaneous flow field is decomposed into three components: a spatial mean, coherent field and random background fluctuations. The evolution equations for the coherent velocity, derived from the Navier–Stokes equations, are examined to determine the mode that maximizes the growth rate of volume-averaged coherent kinetic energy. Using a simple closure scheme to model the effects of the background turbulence, we find that the spatial form of the maximum energy growth modes compares well with the shape of the empirical eigenfunctions given by the proper orthogonal decomposition. The discrepancy between the eigenspectrum of the stability problem and the empirical eigenspectrum is explained by examining the role of the mean velocity field. A simple dynamic model which captures the energy exchange mechanisms between the different scales of motion is proposed. Analysis of this model shows that the modes which attain the maximum amplitude of coherent energy density in the model correspond to the empirical modes which possess the largest percentage of turbulent kinetic energy. The proposed method provides a means for extracting coherent structures which are similar to those produced by the proper orthogonal decomposition but which requires only modest statistical input.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 285 , 25 February 1995 , pp. 349 - 369
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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