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Scaling of small-scale wall turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2022

S.L. Tang Open the ORCID record for S.L. Tang [Opens in a new window]  and
R.A. Antonia
S.L. Tang*
Affiliation:
Center for Turbulence Control, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055, PR China
R.A. Antonia
Affiliation:
School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
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†Email address for correspondence: shunlin.tang88@gmail.com
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Abstract

In the vicinity of walls, turbulence is anisotropic. Since the classical hypotheses of Kolmogorov (Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, vol. 30, 1941, pp. 299–303), Obukhov (Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Geogr. Geofiz, vol. 13, 1949, pp. 58–69) and Corrsin (J. Appl. Phys., vol. 22, 1951, pp. 469–473) require small-scale turbulence to be isotropic, they have only limited relevance to wall-bounded turbulent flows. Here, we put forward a hypothesis whereby small-scale near-wall statistics, when suitably normalized, are independent of the type of flow as well as of the Reynolds and Péclet numbers. The relatively large amount of available wall turbulence direct numerical simulations data, related mainly to second-order statistics, in a channel flow and a boundary layer provides good support for the independence with respect to the Reynolds number. To fully validate the hypothesis, more data are required for higher-order statistics as well as for other wall flows and for different surface conditions.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 948 , 10 October 2022 , A25
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