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Subgrid-scale structure and fluxes of turbulence underneath a surface wave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2019

Kuanyu Chen ,
Minping Wan Open the ORCID record for Minping Wan [Opens in a new window] ,
Lian-Ping Wang  and
Shiyi Chen
Kuanyu Chen
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China
Minping Wan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, PR China
Lian-Ping Wang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, PR China Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Shiyi Chen*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, PR China
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†Email addresses for correspondence: wanmp@sustech.edu.cn, chensy@sustech.edu.cn
†Email addresses for correspondence: wanmp@sustech.edu.cn, chensy@sustech.edu.cn
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Abstract

In this study, the behaviours of subgrid-scale (SGS) turbulence are investigated with direct numerical simulations when an isotropic turbulence is brought to interact with imposed rapid waves. A partition of the velocity field is used to decompose the SGS stress into three parts, namely, the turbulent part $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{T}$, the wave-induced part $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{W}$ and the cross-interaction part $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{C}$. Under strong wave straining, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{T}$ is found to follow the Kolmogorov scaling $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}_{c}^{2/3}$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}_{c}$ is the filter width. Based on the linear Airy wave theory, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{W}$ and the filtered strain-rate tensor due to the wave motion, $\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D64E}}^{W}$, are found to have different phases, posing a difficulty in applying the usual eddy-viscosity model. On the other hand, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D749}^{T}$ and the filtered strain-rate tensor due to the turbulent motion, $\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D64E}}^{T}$, are only weakly wave-phase-dependent and could be well related by an eddy-viscosity model. The linear wave theory is also used to describe the vertical distributions of SGS statistics driven by the wave-induced motion. The predictions are in good agreement with the direct numerical simulation results. The budget equation for the turbulent SGS kinetic energy shows that the transport terms related to turbulence are important near the free surface and they compensate the imbalance between the energy flux and the SGS energy dissipation.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 878 , 10 November 2019 , pp. 768 - 795
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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