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Enhanced secondary motion of the turbulent flow through a porous square duct

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2015

A. Samanta ,
R. Vinuesa ,
I. Lashgari ,
P. Schlatter  and
L. Brandt
A. Samanta*
Affiliation:
Linné FLOW Centre and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), KTH Mechanics, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
R. Vinuesa
Affiliation:
Linné FLOW Centre and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), KTH Mechanics, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
I. Lashgari
Affiliation:
Linné FLOW Centre and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), KTH Mechanics, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
P. Schlatter
Affiliation:
Linné FLOW Centre and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), KTH Mechanics, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
L. Brandt
Affiliation:
Linné FLOW Centre and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC), KTH Mechanics, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
*
†Email address for correspondence: luca@mech.kth.se
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Abstract

Direct numerical simulations of the fully developed turbulent flow through a porous square duct are performed to study the effect of the permeable wall on the secondary cross-stream flow. The volume-averaged Navier–Stokes equations are used to describe the flow in the porous phase, a packed bed with porosity ${\it\varepsilon}_{c}=0.95$. The porous square duct is computed at $\mathit{Re}_{b}\simeq 5000$ and compared with the numerical simulations of a turbulent duct with four solid walls. The two boundary layers on the top wall and porous interface merge close to the centre of the duct, as opposed to the channel, because the sidewall boundary layers inhibit the growth of the shear layer over the porous interface. The most relevant feature in the porous duct is the enhanced magnitude of the secondary flow, which exceeds that of a regular duct by a factor of four. This is related to the increased vertical velocity, and the different interaction between the ejections from the sidewalls and the porous medium. We also report a significant decrease in the streamwise turbulence intensity over the porous wall of the duct (which is also observed in a porous channel), and the appearance of short spanwise rollers in the buffer layer, replacing the streaky structures of wall-bounded turbulence. These spanwise rollers most probably result from a Kelvin–Helmholtz type of instability, and their width is limited by the presence of the sidewalls.

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Low-Reynolds-number flows: Porous media Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 784 , 10 December 2015 , pp. 681 - 693
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