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The inter-scale energy budget in a von Kármán mixing flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2020

Anna N. Knutsen Open the ORCID record for Anna N. Knutsen [Opens in a new window] ,
Pawel Baj Open the ORCID record for Pawel Baj [Opens in a new window] ,
John M. Lawson ,
Eberhard Bodenschatz ,
James R. Dawson Open the ORCID record for James R. Dawson [Opens in a new window]  and
Nicholas A. Worth Open the ORCID record for Nicholas A. Worth [Opens in a new window]
Anna N. Knutsen*
Affiliation:
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
Pawel Baj
Affiliation:
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
John M. Lawson
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Göttingen 37077, Germany Department of Fluid Dynamics, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute of Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Göttingen 37077, Germany
James R. Dawson
Affiliation:
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
Nicholas A. Worth
Affiliation:
Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7491, Norway
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†Email address for correspondence: anna.n.knutsen@ntnu.no
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Abstract

A detailed assessment of the inter-scale energy budget of the turbulent flow in a von Kármán mixing tank has been performed based on two extensive experimental data sets. Measurements were performed at a Taylor microscale Reynolds number of $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}=199$ in the central region of the tank, using scanning particle image velocimetry (PIV) to fully resolve the velocity gradient tensor (VGT), and stereoscopic PIV for an expanded field of view. Following a basic flow characterisation, the Kármán–Howarth–Monin–Hill equation was used to investigate the inter-scale energy transfer. Access to the full VGT enabled the contribution of the different terms of the energy budget to be evaluated without any assumptions or approximations. The scale-space distribution of the dominant terms was also reported to assess the isotropy of the energy transfer. The results show a highly anisotropic distribution of energy transfer in scale space. Energy transfer was shown in a spherically averaged sense to be dominated at the small scales by the nonlinear inter-scale transfer term. However, in contrast to flows considered in previous studies, the local energy transfer is found to depend heavily on the linear contribution associated with the mean flow. Analysis of the scale-to-scale transfer of energy also allowed direct assessment of the classical picture of the energy cascade. It was found that while the inter-scale energy cascade driven by the turbulent fluctuations always proceeds in the forward direction, the total energy cascade driven by both the turbulent fluctuations and the mean flow exhibits significant inverse cascade regions, where energy is transferred from smaller to larger scales.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 895 , 25 July 2020 , A11
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