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Extreme events and non-Kolmogorov $-5/3$ spectra in turbulent flows behind two side-by-side square cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2019

Yi Zhou Open the ORCID record for Yi Zhou [Opens in a new window] ,
Koji Nagata Open the ORCID record for Koji Nagata [Opens in a new window] ,
Yasuhiko Sakai  and
Tomoaki Watanabe Open the ORCID record for Tomoaki Watanabe [Opens in a new window]
Yi Zhou*
Affiliation:
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, PR China
Koji Nagata
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
Yasuhiko Sakai
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
Tomoaki Watanabe
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: yizhou@njust.edu.cn
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Abstract

Turbulent flows behind two side-by-side square cylinders with three different gap ratios, namely, $L_{d}/T_{0}=4,$ 6 and 8 ($L_{d}$ is the separation distance between two cylinders and $T_{0}$ is the cylinder thickness) are investigated by using direct numerical simulations. Depending on the strength of the gap flow, the three cases can generally be characterized into two regimes, one being the weak gap flow regime and the other being the robust gap flow regime. The wake-interaction length scale can only be applied to characterize the spatial evolution of the dual-wake flow in the robust gap flow regime. And only in this regime can the so-called ‘extreme events’ (i.e. non-Gaussian velocity fluctuations with large flatness) be identified. For the case with $L_{d}/T_{0}=6$, two downstream locations, i.e. $X/T_{0}=6$ and 26, at which the turbulent flows are highly non-Gaussian distributed and approximately Gaussian distributed, respectively, are analysed in detail. A well-defined $-5/3$ energy spectrum can be found in the near-field region (i.e. $X/T_{0}=6$), where the turbulent flow is still developing and highly intermittent and Kolmogorov’s universal equilibrium hypothesis does not hold. We confirm that the approximate $-5/3$ power law in the high-frequency range is closely related to the occurrences of the extreme events. As the downstream distance increases, the velocity fluctuations gradually adopt a Gaussian distribution, corresponding to a decrease in the strength of the extreme events. Consequently, the range of the $-5/3$ power law narrows. In the upstream region (i.e. $X/T_{0}=6$), the second-order structure function exhibits a power-law exponent close to $1$, whereas in the far downstream region (i.e. $X/T_{0}=26$) the expected $2/3$ power-law exponent appears. The larger exponent at $X/T_{0}=6$ is related to the fact that fluid motions in the intermediate range can directly ‘feel’ the large-scale vortex shedding.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation Turbulent Flows: Turbulence theory
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 874 , 10 September 2019 , pp. 677 - 698
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