Effect of different surface roughnesses on a turbulent boundary layer



Título del documento: Effect of different surface roughnesses on a turbulent boundary layer
Revista: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000312015
ISSN: 0100-7386
Autores: 1
2
Instituciones: 1University of Newcastle, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia
2Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Thermo and Fluid Dynamics Department of Mechanics, Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag. Noruega
Año:
Volumen: 22
Número: 1
Paginación: 1-5
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental
Resumen en inglés The classical treatment of rough wall turbulent boundary layers consists in determining the effect the roughness has on the mean velocity profile. This effect is usually described in terms of the roughness function delta U+. The general implication is that different roughness geometries with the same delta U+ will have similar turbulence characteristics, at least at a sufficient distance from the roughness elements. Measurements over two different surface geometries (a mesh roughness and spanwise circular rods regularly spaced in the streamwise direction) with nominally the same delta U+ indicate significant differences in the Reynolds stresses, especially those involving the wall-normal velocity fluctuation, over the outer region. The differences are such that the Reynolds stress anisotropy is smaller over the mesh roughness than the rod roughness. The Reynolds stress anisotropy is largest for a smooth wall. The small-scale anisotropy and interniittency exhibit much smaller differences when the Taylor microscale Reynolds number and the Kolmogorov-normalized mean shear are nominally the same. There is nonetheless evidence that the small-scale structure over the three-dimensional mesh roughness conforms more closely with isotropy than that over the rod-roughened and smooth walls
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Dinámica de fluidos,
Física,
Turbulencia,
Capa límite,
Rugosidad
Keyword: Physics and astronomy,
Fluid dynamics,
Physics,
Turbulence,
Boundary layer,
Roughness
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