Nonlinearity in the resolvent analysis: recovery of the mean velocity profile and energy transfer paths in wall turbulence

Abstract

The present research extended resolvent analysis in canonical turbulent flows to analysis of the nonlinear forcing term. Fullcharacterization of the nonlinear forcing is equivalent to making the formulation self-consistent and self-sustaining. The workprovided a rigorous, non-empirical framework to reconstruct the mean velocity profile from an assembly of correctly-weightedresolvent modes, determined weights for individual triadic interactions, and used these results to give new insight forturbulence models. The study included analysis, modeling, experimental excitation of individual triadic interactions usingdynamic roughness and investigation of controlled flow.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 19, 2019
Accession Number
AD1096815

Entities

People

  • Beverley McKeon

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Channel Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Drag Reduction
  • Dynamics
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Frequency
  • High Performance Computing
  • Hypervelocity Flow
  • Mechanics
  • Navier Stokes Equations
  • Poiseuille Flow
  • Reynolds Number
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Statistics
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulent Boundary Layer
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Control Systems Engineering.