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Evidence for a mixing transition in fully-developed pipe flow

Evidence for a mixing transition in fully-developed pipe flow. Beverley McKeon, Jonathan Morrison DEPT AERONAUTICS IMPERIAL COLLEGE. Summary. Dimotakis’ “mixing transition” Mixing transition in wall-bounded flows Relationship to the inertial subrange

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Evidence for a mixing transition in fully-developed pipe flow

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  1. Evidence for a mixing transition in fully-developed pipe flow Beverley McKeon, Jonathan Morrison DEPT AERONAUTICS IMPERIAL COLLEGE

  2. Summary • Dimotakis’ “mixing transition” • Mixing transition in wall-bounded flows • Relationship to the inertial subrange • Importance of the mixing transition to self-similarity • Insufficient separation of scales: the mesolayer

  3. Dimotakis’ mixing transitionJ. Fluid Mech. 409 (2000) • Originally observed in free shear layers (e.g. Konrad, 1976) • “Ability of the flow to sustain three-dimensional fluctuations” in Konrad’s turbulent shear layer • Dimotakis details existence in jets, boundary layers, bluff-body flows, grid turbulence etc

  4. Dimotakis’ mixing transitionJ. Fluid Mech. 409 (2000) • Universal phenomenon of turbulence/criterion for fully-developed turbulence • Decoupling of viscous and large-scale effects • Usually associated with inertial subrange • Transition: Red* ~ 104 or Rl ~ 100 – 140

  5. Variation of wake factor with Req From Coles (1962)

  6. Pipe equivalent: variation of x • For boundary layers wake factor from • In pipe related to wake factor • Note that x is ratio of ZS to traditional outer velocity scales

  7. Same kind of Re variation in pipe flow

  8. Identification with mixing transition • Transition for Rl ~ 100 – 140, or Red* ~ 104 • ReR* = 104 when ReD ~ 75 x 103 (Rl = 110 when y+ = 100, approximately) • This is ReD where begins to decrease with Reynolds number • Rl varies across pipe – start of mixing transition when Rl = 100 • Coincides with the appearance of a “first-order” subrange (Lumley `64, Bradshaw `67, Lawn `71)

  9. Extension to inertial subrange? • Mixing transition corresponds to decoupling of viscous and y scales - necessary for self-similarity • Suggests examination of spectra, particularly close to dissipative range • Inertial subrange: local region in wavenumber space where production=dissipation i.e. inertial transfer only • “First order” inertial subrange (Bradshaw 1967): sources,sinks << inertial transfer

  10. Scaling of the inertial subrange For K41 overlap In overlap region, dissipation

  11. Inertial subrange – ReD = 75 x 103 y+ = 100 - 200 i.e. traditionally accepted log law region

  12. Scaling of streamwise fluctuations u2

  13. Similarity of the streamwise fluctuation spectrum I Perry and Li, J. Fluid Mech. (1990). Fig. 1b

  14. Similarity of the streamwise fluctuation spectrum II y/R = 0.38 y/R = 0.10

  15. Outer velocity scale for the pipe data y/R ReD < 100 x 103 ZS outer scale gives better collapse in core region for all Reynolds numbers 100 x 103 < ReD < 200 x 103 ReD > 200 x 103

  16. Addition of inner and outer log laws shows that UCL+ scales logarithmically in R+ Integration of log law from wall to centerline shows that U+ also scales logarithmically in R+ Thus for log law to hold, the difference between them, x, must be a constant True for ReD > 300 x 103 Self-similarity of mean velocity profile requires x = const.

  17. Inner mean velocity scaling B A C k = 0.421 Power law y k = 0.385? y = U+ - 1/k ln y+ y+

  18. Relationship with “mesolayer” • e.g. Long & Chen (1981), Sreenivasan (1997), Wosnik, Castillo & George (2000), Klewicki et al • Region where separation of scales is too small for inertially-dominated turbulence OR region where streamwise momentum equation reduces to balance of pressure and viscous forces • Observed below mixing transition • Included in generalized log law formulation (Buschmann and Gad-el-Hak); second order and higher matching terms are tiny for y+ > 1000

  19. Summary • Evidence for start of mixing transition in pipe flow at ReD = 75 x 103. (Not previously demonstrated) • Correspondence of mixing transition with emergence of the “first-order” inertial subrange, end of mesolayer • Importance of constant x for similarity of mean velocity profile (Reynolds similarity) • Difference between ReD for mixing transition and complete similarity

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