Near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence

Wall-bounded turbulence

Phenomenology of wall-bounded Newtonian turbulence.

We construct a simple analytic model for wall-bounded turbulence, containing only four adjustable parameters. Two of these parameters are responsible for the viscous dissipation of the components of the Reynolds stress tensor. The other two parameters control the nonlinear relaxation of these objects. The model offers an analytic description of the profiles of the mean velocity and the correlat...

Coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulence.

The inherent difficulty of understanding turbulence has led to researchers attacking the topic in many different ways over the years of turbulence research. Some approaches have been more successful than others, but most only deal with part of the problem. One approach that has seen reasonable success (or at least popularity) is that of attempting to deconstruct the complex and disorganised tur...

Nonlinear RDT theory of near-wall turbulence

A WKB method was recently used to extend rapid distortion theory (RDT) to initially inhomogeneous turbulence strained by irrotational mean flows [S.V. Nazarenko, N. Kevlahan, B. Dubrulle, J. Fluid Mech. 390 (1999) 325]. This theory takes into account the feedback of turbulence on the mean flow, and it was used by Nazarenko et al. to explain the effect of strain reduction caused by turbulence ob...

Low-dimensional dynamics of near-wall turbulence

Wall-bounded turbulent shear flows are perhaps the last area in ‘classical’ incompressible turbulence in which there still are open questions about basic physical mechanisms. There are two competing conceptual models. In the first one, wall turbulence is just a modification of ordinary shear turbulence occuring when the latter is a near wall, and is therefore dependent on the prior existence of...