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On the relevance of Reynolds stresses in resolvent analyses of turbulent wall-bounded flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2019

Pierluigi Morra Open the ORCID record for Pierluigi Morra [Opens in a new window] ,
Onofrio Semeraro Open the ORCID record for Onofrio Semeraro [Opens in a new window] ,
Dan S. Henningson Open the ORCID record for Dan S. Henningson [Opens in a new window]  and
Carlo Cossu Open the ORCID record for Carlo Cossu [Opens in a new window]
Pierluigi Morra
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linné FLOW Centre, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden
Onofrio Semeraro
Affiliation:
LIMSI, UPR 3251 CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
Dan S. Henningson
Affiliation:
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linné FLOW Centre, SE-10044, Stockholm, Sweden
Carlo Cossu*
Affiliation:
LHEEA, UMR 6598 CNRS/Centrale Nantes, 44300 Nantes, France
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The ability of linear stochastic response analysis to estimate coherent motions is investigated in turbulent channel flow at the friction Reynolds number $\text{Re}_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}=1007$. The analysis is performed for spatial scales characteristic of buffer-layer and large-scale motions by separating the contributions of different temporal frequencies. Good agreement between the measured spatio-temporal power spectral densities and those estimated by means of the resolvent is found when the effect of turbulent Reynolds stresses, modelled with an eddy-viscosity associated with the turbulent mean flow, is included in the resolvent operator. The agreement is further improved when the flat forcing power spectrum (white noise) is replaced with a power spectrum matching the measures. Such a good agreement is not observed when the eddy-viscosity terms are not included in the resolvent operator. In this case, the estimation based on the resolvent is unable to select the right peak frequency and wall-normal location of buffer-layer motions. Similar results are found when comparing truncated expansions of measured streamwise velocity power spectral densities based on a spectral proper orthogonal decomposition to those obtained with optimal resolvent modes.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 867 , 25 May 2019 , pp. 969 - 984
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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