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64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Volume 56, Number 18

Sunday–Tuesday, November 20–22, 2011;

Baltimore, Maryland

Session E7: Turbulent Boundary Layers III: Roughness

4:40 PM–6:50 PM,

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Room: 310

Chair: Karen Flack, U.S. Naval Academy

Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.DFD.E7.3

Abstract: E7.00003 : Spatial Characteristics of Large-Scale Motions in Smooth and Rough Turbulent Boundary Layers

5:06 PM–5:19 PM

Authors:

J.M. Barros

(MechSE Dept., Univ. of Illinois)

K.T. Christensen

(MechSE Dept., Univ. of Illinois)

Wide field of view stereo PIV measurements were conducted in the

wall-normal--spanwise plane of smooth and rough zero-pressure-

gradient turbulent boundary layers. The roughness under

consideration was replicated from a turbine blade damaged by

deposition of foreign materials and contained a broad range of

scales arranged in an irregular manner. Inspection of smooth-

and rough-wall instantaneous velocity fields in this cross plane

uncovered the spatial signatures of low- and high-momentum

regions, the former of which have been previously linked to

hairpin vortex packets in the outer layer of wall turbulence.

Proper orthogonal decomposition was employed to study the

spatial characteristics of the large-scale motions in smooth-

wall flow and revealed a significant spanwise coherence in the

form of alternating low- and high-momentum regions well beyond

that reflected in two-point velocity correlations. In contrast,

the rough-wall results revealed weaker coherence of these large-

scale motions.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2011.DFD.E7.3