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Small-scale dynamics of dense gas compressible homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

L. Sciacovelli ,
P. Cinnella Open the ORCID record for P. Cinnella [Opens in a new window]  and
F. Grasso
L. Sciacovelli*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire DynFluid, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, 75013 Paris, France Dipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politenico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
P. Cinnella*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire DynFluid, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, 75013 Paris, France
F. Grasso*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire DynFluid, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 75003 Paris, France
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†Email addresses for correspondence: paola.cinnella@ensam.eu, luca.sciacovelli@ensam.eu, francesco.grasso@cnam.fr
†Email addresses for correspondence: paola.cinnella@ensam.eu, luca.sciacovelli@ensam.eu, francesco.grasso@cnam.fr
†Email addresses for correspondence: paola.cinnella@ensam.eu, luca.sciacovelli@ensam.eu, francesco.grasso@cnam.fr
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Abstract

The present paper investigates the influence of dense gases governed by complex equations of state on the dynamics of homogeneous isotropic turbulence. In particular, we investigate how differences due to the complex thermodynamic behaviour and transport properties affect the small-scale structures, viscous dissipation and enstrophy generation. To this end, we carry out direct numerical simulations of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations supplemented by advanced dense gas constitutive models. The dense gas considered in the study is a heavy fluorocarbon (PP11) that is shown to exhibit an inversion zone (i.e. a region where the fundamental derivative of gas dynamics $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ is negative) in its vapour phase, for pressures and temperatures of the order of magnitude of the critical ones. Simulations are carried out at various initial turbulent Mach numbers and for two different initial thermodynamic states, one immediately outside and the other inside the inversion zone. After investigating the influence of dense gas effects on the time evolution of mean turbulence properties, we focus on the statistical properties of turbulent structures. For that purpose we carry out an analysis in the plane of the second and third invariant of the deviatoric strain-rate tensor. The analysis shows a weakening of compressive structures and an enhancement of expanding ones. Strong expansion regions are found to be mostly populated by non-focal convergence structures typical of strong compression regions, in contrast with the perfect gas that is dominated by eddy-like structures. Additionally, the contribution of non-focal expanding structures to the dilatational dissipation is comparable to that of compressed structures. This is due to the occurrence of steep expansion fronts and possibly of expansion shocklets which contribute to enstrophy generation in strong expansion regions and that counterbalance enstrophy destruction by means of the eddy-like structures.

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Turbulent Flows: Compressible turbulence Compressible Flows: Gas dynamics Turbulent Flows: Isotropic turbulence
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 825 , 25 August 2017 , pp. 515 - 549
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