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Large-scale coherent structures in the wake of axisymmetric bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

H. V. Fuchs ,
E. Mercker  and
U. Michel
H. V. Fuchs
Affiliation:
DFVLR-Institut für Turbulenzforschung, 1000 Berlin 12 Present address: FhG-Institut für Bauphysik, 7000 Stuttgart 700.
E. Mercker
Affiliation:
DFVLR-Institut für Turbulenzforschung, 1000 Berlin 12 Hermann-Föttinger-Institut für Thermo- und Fluiddynamik, Technische Universität, 1000 Berlin 12
U. Michel
Affiliation:
DFVLR-Institut für Turbulenzforschung, 1000 Berlin 12
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Abstract

The unsteady flow past a circular disk is studied with hot-wire and microphone probes positioned in planes normal to the axis of symmetry at 3 and 9 disk diameters down-stream. Both the fluctuating velocity and pressure signals are shown to be continuously dominated by large-scale coherent motions enveloping the wake flow as a whole. This suggests narrowband two-point space correlations as an experimental tool for describing spatial coherence and phase characteristics of the basically random signals. The specific symmetry imposed by the axisymmetric boundary conditions of the disk enables a decomposition of the large-scale flow phenomena into relatively simple elementary structures or modes. The resulting azimuthal constituents are quantified in terms of their respective magnitudes and individual power spectra.

The capability of the approach to uncover characteristic features of turbulence as far as its large-scale domain is concerned is demonstrated by a comparison of the present results with certain remarkably different features found in earlier jet flow investigations: the m = 1 and m = 2 modes are found to clearly dominate in wakes whereas the m = 0 and m = 1 modes were dominant in jets in a relevant range of Strouhal numbers. These large-scale coherent structures are more than just an interesting flow phenomenon; they must have a tremendou back-reaction on rigid flow boundaries (particularly if these allow a vibrational response) and may give rise to specific feedback mechanisms.

The analysing technique proposed for studying large-scale flow phenomena injets and wakes removes part of the randomness in the turbulent signals without artificially exciting or forcing them in one way or another. No conditional sampling of the naturally occurring fluctuations is required, either. The method may be applicable to other than strictly axisymmetric flow configurations, too.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 93 , Issue 1 , 12 July 1979 , pp. 185 - 207
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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