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Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2022

Y. Zheng  and
W. Anderson Open the ORCID record for W. Anderson [Opens in a new window]
Y. Zheng
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
W. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: wca140030@utdallas.edu
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Abstract

Fully rough wall-sheared turbulence is composed of an inner and outer layer, the former occupied by sinuous structures sustained by the well-known autonomous inner cycle, the latter occupied by inclined parcels of momentum deviations relative to the average. The outer-layer structures are also known as uniform momentum zones (UMZs), where the presence of successive UMZs manifests instantaneously with a distinct ‘staircase’ pattern in streamwise velocity. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of fully rough channel turbulence was recently used to interpret UMZs as wakes originating from antecedent bluff-body-like interactions within the inner layer (Anderson & Salesky, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 906, 2020, A8). Wake-scaling arguments agreed precisely with instantaneous results from DNS. Foremost among these results was evidence that the instantaneous wall-normal gradient of streamwise velocity exhibited scaling of ${\sim }x_3^{-1/2}$, where $x_3$ is wall-normal location; this is in contrast to logarithmic scaling, which requires the wall-normal gradient of streamwise velocity to scale as ${\sim }x_3^{-1}$. Herein, wake-scaling arguments have been advanced and compared against results from wall-modelled large-eddy simulation (LES). New results from the ‘bottom up’ wake-scaling arguments agree with LES results, such that the shear associated with the instantaneous staircase-like streamwise velocity follows a clear trend. We have leveraged conditional sampling during LES – predicated upon instantaneous low-frequency, high-magnitude surface stress values known to correspond to large-scale inertial-layer coherence – to further assess the predictive value of the wake-scaling arguments. Model results compare favourably.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence modelling Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 944 , 10 August 2022 , A33
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