Predictions of canonical wall-bounded turbulent flows via a modified k–ω equation

A linear process in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows

A linear process in wall-bounded turbulent shear flows has been investigated through numerical experiments. It is shown that the linear coupling term, which enhances non-normality of the linearized Navier–Stokes system, plays an important role in fully turbulent—and hence, nonlinear —flows. Near-wall turbulence is shown to decay without the linear coupling term. It is also shown that near-wall ...

A new eddy-based model for wall-bounded turbulent flows

A Vortex Method for Wall Bounded Turbulent Flows

Turbulent ow in a channel is simulated using a vortex method. Smoothed vortex sheets cover the near wall region while the vorticity in the remainder of the ow is contained in convecting and stretching vortex laments. The sheet elements are convected and regridded at each time step thus enabling evaluation of their wall-normal viscous diiusion and vortex stretching using nite diierences. New lam...

Scaling properties of the equation for passive scalar transport in wall-bounded turbulent flows

Data from direct numerical simulations (DNS) of fully-developed turbulent channel flows subjected to a constant surface heat-flux are used to explore the scaling behaviours admitted by the mean thermal energy equation. Following the framework of Wei et al. (2005) [1,2], the analysis employs a theory based on the magnitude ordering of terms in the mean thermal energy equation of wall-bounded tur...

Symmetry-preserving regularization of wall-bounded turbulent flows

The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations constitute an excellent mathematical modelization of turbulence. Unfortunately, attempts at performing direct simulations are limited to relatively low-Reynolds numbers because of the almost numberless small scales produced by the non-linear convective term. Alternatively, a dynamically less complex formulation is proposed here. Namely, regularizations...