Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari, Via Re David 200, 70125 Bari, Italy
2. Laboratoire DynFluid, Arts et Metiers ParisTech, Bd de l’Hopital 75013 Paris, France
Abstract
A new mathematical framework is proposed for characterizing the coherent motion of fluctuations around a mean turbulent channel flow. We search for statistically invariant coherent solutions of the unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations written in a perturbative form with respect to the turbulent mean flow, using a suitable approximation of the Reynolds stress tensor. This is achieved by setting up a continuation procedure of known solutions of the perturbative Navier–Stokes equations, based on the continuous increase of the turbulent eddy viscosity towards its turbulent value. The recovered solutions, being sustained only in the presence of the Reynolds stress tensor, are representative of the statistically coherent motion of turbulent flows. For small friction Reynolds number and/or domain size, the statistically invariant motion is almost identical to the corresponding invariant solution of the Navier–Stokes equations. Whereas, for sufficiently large friction number and/or domain size, it considerably departs from the starting invariant solution of the Navier–Stokes equations, presenting spatial structures, main wavelengths and scaling very close to those characterizing both large- and small-scale motion of turbulent channel flows.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Mathematical problems in physical fluid dynamics (part 2)’.
Funder
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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