Structure and Dynamics of Turbulent Wall Layers

Abstract

The three-dimensional structure of the turbulent motion of fluid flowing close to a surface has been studied using the technique of linear mean square stochastic estimation to find estimates of the flow field when certain events occur in the flow. The structures given the velocity at one point have been documented, and their dynamic evolution is being studied. It is shown that they are long-lived. One-point events provide insight into the physical bases of closure approximations in one-point moment closures, and they have been used to provide a new closure approximation for the fast pressure-strain correlation. Stochastic estimation is used as a means of defining three-dimensional, dynamic wall boundary conditions for large eddy simulations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 1994
Accession Number
ADA285360

Entities

People

  • Ronald J. Adrian

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Channel Flow
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • Fluid Flow
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Layers
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Reynolds Number
  • Shear Stresses
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Turbulent Mixing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.