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  • Cambridge University Press  (5)
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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2017-09-04
    Description: This paper extends the resolvent analysis of McKeon & Sharma (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 658, 2010, pp. 336-382) to elucidate the drag reduction mechanisms for the suboptimal control laws proposed by Lee, Kim & Choi (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 358, 1998, pp. 245-258). Under the resolvent formulation, the turbulent velocity field is expressed as a linear superposition of propagating modes identified via a gain-based decomposition of the Navier-Stokes equations. This decomposition enables targeted analyses of the effects of suboptimal control on high-gain modes that serve as useful low-order models for dynamically important coherent structures such as the near-wall (NW) cycle or very-large-scale motions. The control laws generate blowing and suction at the wall that is proportional to the fluctuating streamwise (Case ST) or spanwise (Case SP) wall shear stress, with the magnitude of blowing and suction being a design parameter. It is shown that both Case ST and SP can suppress resolvent modes resembling the NW cycle. However, for Case ST, the analysis reveals that control leads to substantial amplification of flow structures that are long in the spanwise direction. Quantitative comparisons show that these predictions are broadly consistent with results obtained in previous direct numerical simulations. Further, the predicted changes in mode structure suggest that suboptimal control can be considered a modified version of opposition control. In addition to the study of modes resembling the NW cycle, this paper also considers modes of varying speed and wavelength to provide insight into the effects of suboptimal control across spectral space. © 2017 Cambridge University Press.
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    Electronic ISSN: 1469-7645
    Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Description: This paper reports turbulent boundary layer measurements made over open-cell reticulated foams with varying pore size and thickness, but constant porosity (ϵ∼0:97). The foams were flush-mounted into a cutout on a flat plate. A laser Doppler velocimeter (LDV) was used to measure mean streamwise velocity and turbulence intensity immediately upstream of the porous section, and at multiple measurement stations along the porous substrate. The friction Reynolds number upstream of the porous section was Reτ ∼ 1690. For all but the thickest foam tested, the internal boundary layer was fully developed by 〈10δ downstream from the porous transition, where δ is the boundary layer thickness. Fully developed mean velocity profiles showed the presence of a substantial slip velocity at the porous interface (〉30% of the free-stream velocity) and a mean velocity deficit relative to the canonical smooth-wall profile further from the wall. While the magnitude of the mean velocity deficit increased with average pore size, the slip velocity remained approximately constant. Fits to the mean velocity profile suggest that the logarithmic region is shifted relative to a smooth wall, and that this shift increases with pore size until it becomes comparable to substrate thickness h. For all foams, the turbulence intensity was found to be elevated further into the boundary layer to y/δ ∼0.2. An outer peak in intensity was also evident for the largest pore sizes. Velocity spectra indicate that this outer peak is associated with large-scale structures resembling Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices that have streamwise length scale 2δ-4δ. Skewness profiles suggest that these large-scale structures may have an amplitude-modulating effect on the interfacial turbulence. © 2018 Cambridge University Press.
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Description: This paper evaluates and modifies the so-called suboptimal control technique for turbulent skin friction reduction through a combination of low-order modelling and direct numerical simulation (DNS). In a previous study, Nakashima et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 828, 2017, pp. 496-526) employed resolvent analysis to show that the efficacy of suboptimal control was mixed across spectral space when the streamwise wall shear stress (case ST) was used as a sensor signal, i.e. specific regions of spectral space showed drag increment. This observation suggests that drag reduction may be attained if control is applied selectively in spectral space. DNS results presented in the present study, however, do not show a significant effect on the flow with selective control. A posteriori analyses attribute this lack of efficacy to a much lower actuation amplitude in the simulations compared to model assumptions. Building on these observations, resolvent analysis is used to design and provide a preliminary assessment of modified control laws that also rely on sensing the streamwise wall shear stress. Control performance is then assessed by means of DNS. The proposed control laws generate as much as drag reduction, and these results are broadly consistent with resolvent-based predictions. The physical mechanisms leading to drag reduction are assessed via conditional sampling. It is shown that the new control laws effectively suppress the near-wall quasi-streamwise vortices. A physically intuitive explanation is proposed based on a separate evaluation of clockwise and anticlockwise vortices. © 2019 Cambridge University Press.
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    Publication Date: 2018-12-19
    Description: We study the effect of spanwise rotation in turbulent channel flow at both low and high Reynolds numbers by employing the resolvent formulation proposed by McKeon & Sharma (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 658, 2010, pp. 336-382). Under this formulation, the nonlinear terms in the Navier-Stokes equations are regarded as a forcing that acts upon the remaining linear dynamics to generate the turbulent velocity field in response. A gain-based decomposition of the forcing-response transfer function across spectral space yields models for highly amplified flow structures, or modes. Unlike linear stability analysis, this enables targeted analyses of the effects of rotation on high-gain modes that serve as useful low-order models for dynamically important coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulent flows. The present study examines a wide range of rotation rates. A posteriori comparisons at low Reynolds number demonstrate that the resolvent formulation is able to quantitatively predict the effect of varying spanwise rotation rates on specific classes of flow structure (e.g. the near-wall cycle) as well as energy amplification across spectral space. For fixed inner-normalized rotation number, the effects of rotation at varying friction Reynolds numbers appear to be similar across spectral space, when scaled in outer units. We also consider the effects of rotation on modes with varying speed (i.e. modes that are localized in regions of varying mean shear), and provide suggestions for modelling the nonlinear forcing term. © 2018 Cambridge University Press.
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2018-06-26
    Description: We explore the rotational stability of hovering flight in an idealized two-dimensional model. Our model is motivated by an experimental pyramid-shaped object (Weathers et al., J. Fluid Mech, vol. 650, 2010, pp. 415-425; Liu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 108, 2012, 068103) and a computational -shaped analogue (Huang et al., Phys. Fluids, vol. 27 (6), 2015, 061706; Huang et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 804, 2016, pp. 531-549) hovering passively in oscillating airflows; both systems have been shown to maintain rotational balance during free flight. Here, we attach the -shaped flyer at its apex in oscillating flow, allowing it to rotate freely akin to a pendulum. We use computational vortex sheet methods and we develop a quasi-steady point-force model to analyse the rotational dynamics of the flyer. We find that the flyer exhibits stable concave-down and concave-up behaviour. Importantly, the down and up configurations are bistable and co-exist for a range of background flow properties. We explain the aerodynamic origin of this bistability and compare it to the inertia-induced stability of an inverted pendulum oscillating at its base. We then allow the flyer to flap passively by introducing a rotational spring at its apex. For stiff springs, flexibility diminishes upward stability but as stiffness decreases, a new transition to upward stability is induced by flapping. We conclude by commenting on the implications of these findings for biological and man-made aircraft. © 2018 Cambridge University Press.
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