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A turbulence dissipation inhomogeneity scaling in the wake of two side-by-side square prisms

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J.G. Chen Open the ORCID record for J.G. Chen [Opens in a new window] ,
C. Cuvier Open the ORCID record for C. Cuvier [Opens in a new window] ,
J.-M. Foucaut ,
Y. Ostovan  and
J.C. Vassilicos Open the ORCID record for J.C. Vassilicos [Opens in a new window]
J.G. Chen
Affiliation:
Univ. Lille, CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014 – LMFL – Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille – Kampé de Fériet, F-59000 Lille, France
C. Cuvier
Affiliation:
Univ. Lille, CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014 – LMFL – Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille – Kampé de Fériet, F-59000 Lille, France
J.-M. Foucaut
Affiliation:
Univ. Lille, CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014 – LMFL – Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille – Kampé de Fériet, F-59000 Lille, France
Y. Ostovan
Affiliation:
Univ. Lille, CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014 – LMFL – Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille – Kampé de Fériet, F-59000 Lille, France
J.C. Vassilicos*
Affiliation:
Univ. Lille, CNRS, ONERA, Arts et Metiers Institute of Technology, Centrale Lille, UMR 9014 – LMFL – Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille – Kampé de Fériet, F-59000 Lille, France
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

We experimentally study how the turbulent energy dissipation rate scales in the cross-stream direction of turbulent wake flows generated by two side-by-side square prisms. We consider three different such turbulent flows with gap ratios $G/H=1.25$, $2.4$ and $3.5$, where $G$ is the distance between the prisms and $H$ is the prism width. These three flows have a very different dynamics, inhomogeneities and large-scale features. The measurements were taken with a multi-camera particle image velocimetry system at several streamwise locations between $2.5H$ and $20H$ downstream of the prisms. After removing the large-scale most energetic coherent structures, the normalised turbulence dissipation coefficient $C'_{\epsilon }$ of the remaining incoherent turbulence is found to scale as $C'_{\epsilon } \sim (\sqrt {Re_{L}}/Re'_{\lambda })^{3/2}$ along the highly inhomogeneous cross-stream direction for all streamwise locations tested in all three flows and for all three inlet Reynolds numbers considered; $Re'_{\lambda }$ and $Re_{L}$ are, respectively, a Taylor length-based and an integral length-based Reynolds number of the remaining incoherent turbulence.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory Wakes/Jets: Wakes
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 924 , 10 October 2021 , A4
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