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Reconsideration of spanwise rotating turbulent channel flows via resolvent analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2018

Satoshi Nakashima ,
Mitul Luhar Open the ORCID record for Mitul Luhar [Opens in a new window]  and
Koji Fukagata Open the ORCID record for Koji Fukagata [Opens in a new window]
Satoshi Nakashima
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Mitul Luhar
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Koji Fukagata*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

We study the effect of spanwise rotation in turbulent channel flow at both low and high Reynolds numbers by employing the resolvent formulation proposed by McKeon & Sharma (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 658, 2010, pp. 336–382). Under this formulation, the nonlinear terms in the Navier–Stokes equations are regarded as a forcing that acts upon the remaining linear dynamics to generate the turbulent velocity field in response. A gain-based decomposition of the forcing–response transfer function across spectral space yields models for highly amplified flow structures, or modes. Unlike linear stability analysis, this enables targeted analyses of the effects of rotation on high-gain modes that serve as useful low-order models for dynamically important coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulent flows. The present study examines a wide range of rotation rates. A posteriori comparisons at low Reynolds number ($\mathit{Re}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}=180$) demonstrate that the resolvent formulation is able to quantitatively predict the effect of varying spanwise rotation rates on specific classes of flow structure (e.g. the near-wall cycle) as well as energy amplification across spectral space. For fixed inner-normalized rotation number, the effects of rotation at varying friction Reynolds numbers appear to be similar across spectral space, when scaled in outer units. We also consider the effects of rotation on modes with varying speed (i.e. modes that are localized in regions of varying mean shear), and provide suggestions for modelling the nonlinear forcing term.

JFM classification

Turbulent Flows: Rotating turbulence Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory
Type
JFM Papers
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 861 , 25 February 2019 , pp. 200 - 222
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© 2018 Cambridge University Press 

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