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Reynolds-stress enhancement associated with a short fetch of roughness in wall turbulence

Yanhua Wu; Christensen, Kenneth T.; Kim, Tae-Yeon; Dolbow, John; Fried, Eliot

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Title
Reynolds-stress enhancement associated with a short fetch of roughness in wall turbulence
Author(s)
  • Yanhua Wu
  • Christensen, Kenneth T.
  • Kim, Tae-Yeon
  • Dolbow, John
  • Fried, Eliot
Issue Date
2006-01
Keyword(s)
  • Reynolds Stress
  • Wall Turbulence
  • Short Fetch Of Roughness
  • Stress Producing Events
Abstract
Particle-image velocimetry experiments are performed to study the response of smoothwall turbulent channel flow to a short fetch of roughness (ten outer length scales long). The roughness studied herein is replicated from a surface scan of a damaged turbine blade and contains both large- and small-scale surface defects attributable to pitting, deposition and spallation. Quadrant analysis is used to investigate the characteristics of Reynolds stress- producing events within the internal layer that develops over the roughness. The total mean Reynolds stress is dramatically increased in the presence of the roughness as compared to the smooth-wall baseline owing to an increased number of extremely intense ejections and sweeps. In contrast, inward and outward interactions, as well as relatively weak ejection and sweep events, are found to be insensitive to the surface conditions. While the stress and space fractions for all Reynolds-stress-producing events are found to be insensitive to the s urface topology, the most intense ejection and sweep events yield stress and space fractions that vary significantly with the local surface topology.
Publisher
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
  • TAM R 1085
  • 2006-6004
ISSN
0073-5264
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
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