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Wall pressure and coherent structures in a turbulent boundary layer on a cylinder in axial flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Stephen R. Snarski  and
Richard M. Lueptow
Stephen R. Snarski
Affiliation:
Naval Undersea Warfare Center Detachment, New London, CT 06320, USA
Richard M. Lueptow
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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Abstract

Measurements of wall pressure and streamwise velocity fluctuations in a turbulent boundary layer on a cylinder in an axial air flow (δ/a = 5.04, Reθ = 2870) have been used to investigate the turbulent flow structures in the cylindrical boundary layer that contribute to the fluctuating pressure at the wall in an effort to deduce the effect of transverse curvature on the structure of boundary layer turbulence. Wall pressure was measured at a single location with a subminiature electret condenser microphone, and the velocity was measured throughout a large volume of the boundary layer with a hotwire probe. Auto- and cross-spectral densities, cross-correlations, and conditional sampling of the pressure and streamwise velocity indicate that two primary groups of flow disturbances contribute to the fluctuating pressure at the wall: (i) low-frequency large-scale structures with dynamical significance across the entire boundary layer that are consistent with a pair of large-scale spanwise-oriented counter-rotating vortices and (ii) higher frequency small-scale disturbances concentrated close to the wall that are associated with the burst-sweep cycle and are responsible for the short-duration large-amplitude wall pressure fluctuations. A bidirectional relationship was found to exist between both positive and negative pressure peaks and the temporal derivative of u near the wall. Because the frequency of the large-scale disturbance observed across the boundary layer is consistent with the bursting frequency deduced from the average time between bursts, the burst-sweep cycle appears to be linked to the outer motion. A stretching of the large-scale structures very near the wall, as suggested by space-time correlation convection velocity results, may provide the coupling mechanism. Since the high-frequency disturbance observed near the wall is consistent with the characteristic frequency deduced from the average duration of bursting events, the bursting process provides the two characteristic time scales responsible for the bimodal distribution of energy near the wall. Because many of the observed structural features of the cylindrical boundary layer are similar to those observed in flat-plate turbulent boundary layers, transverse curvature appears to have little effect on the fundamental turbulent structure of the boundary layer for the moderate transverse curvature ratio used in this investigation. From differences that exist between the turbulence intensity, skewness, and spectra of the streamwise velocity, however, it appears that transverse curvature may enhance (i.e. energize) the large-scale motion owing to the reduced constraint imposed on the flow by the smaller cylindrical wall.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 286 , 10 March 1995 , pp. 137 - 171
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© 1995 Cambridge University Press

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