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On the mechanism of wall turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

A. E. Perry  and
M. S. Chong
A. E. Perry
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
M. S. Chong
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to formulate a model for the mechanism of wall turbulence that links recent flow-visualization observations with the various quantitative measurements and scaling laws established from anemometry studies. Various mechanisms are proposed, all of which use the concept of the horse-shoe, hairpin or ‘A’ vortex. It is shown that these models give a connection between the mean-velocity distribution, the broad-band turbulence-intensity distributions and the turbulence spectra. Temperature distributions above a heated surface are also considered. Although this aspect of the work is not yet complete, the analysis for this shows promise.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 119 , June 1982 , pp. 173 - 217
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© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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