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Experimental study on dominant vortex structures in near-wall region of turbulent boundary layer based on tomographic particle image velocimetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2019

Chengyue Wang ,
Qi Gao Open the ORCID record for Qi Gao [Opens in a new window] ,
Jinjun Wang Open the ORCID record for Jinjun Wang [Opens in a new window] ,
Biao Wang  and
Chong Pan Open the ORCID record for Chong Pan [Opens in a new window]
Chengyue Wang
Affiliation:
Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, China
Qi Gao*
Affiliation:
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Jinjun Wang
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics Key Laboratory of Education Ministry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Biao Wang
Affiliation:
Sino-French Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, China
Chong Pan
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics Key Laboratory of Education Ministry, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

Vortex structures are very popular research objects in turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) because of their prime importance in turbulence modelling. This work performs a tomographic particle image velocimetry measurement on the near-wall region ($y<0.1\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$) of TBLs at three Reynolds numbers $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}=1238$, 2286 and 3081. The main attention is paid to the wall-normal evolution of the vortex geometries and topologies. The vortex is identified with swirl strength ($\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}_{ci}$), and its orientation is recognized by using the real eigenvector of the velocity gradient tensor. The vortex inclination angles in the streamwise–wall-normal plane and in the streamwise–spanwise plane as functions of wall-normal positions are investigated, which provide useful information to speculate on the three-dimensional shape of the vortex tubes in a TBL. The difference between the orientations of vorticity and swirl is discussed and their inherent relationship is revealed based on the governing equation of vorticity. Linear stochastic estimation (LSE) is further deployed to directly extract three-dimensional vortex models. The LSE velocity fields for ejection events happening at different wall-normal positions shed light on the evolution of the topologies for the vortices dominating ejection events. LSE based on a centred prograde spanwise vortex provides a typical packet model, which indicates that the population density of the packets in a TBL is large enough to leave footprints in conditionally averaged flow fields. This work should help to settle the severe debate on the existence of packet structures and also lays some foundation for the TBL model theory.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 874 , 10 September 2019 , pp. 426 - 454
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