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Simultaneous skin friction and velocity measurements in high Reynolds number pipe and boundary layer flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2019

R. Baidya Open the ORCID record for R. Baidya [Opens in a new window] ,
W. J. Baars Open the ORCID record for W. J. Baars [Opens in a new window] ,
S. Zimmerman Open the ORCID record for S. Zimmerman [Opens in a new window] ,
M. Samie Open the ORCID record for M. Samie [Opens in a new window] ,
R. J. Hearst Open the ORCID record for R. J. Hearst [Opens in a new window] ,
E. Dogan ,
L. Mascotelli ,
X. Zheng ,
G. Bellani  and
A. Talamelli
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R. Baidya*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
W. J. Baars
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
S. Zimmerman
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
M. Samie
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
R. J. Hearst
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group, University of Southampton, HampshireSO17 1BJ, UK Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO-7491, Norway
E. Dogan
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group, University of Southampton, HampshireSO17 1BJ, UK
L. Mascotelli
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, CIRI Aerospace, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 47100 Forlì, Italy
X. Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, CIRI Aerospace, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 47100 Forlì, Italy
G. Bellani
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, CIRI Aerospace, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 47100 Forlì, Italy
A. Talamelli
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering, CIRI Aerospace, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 47100 Forlì, Italy
B. Ganapathisubramani
Affiliation:
Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanics Research Group, University of Southampton, HampshireSO17 1BJ, UK
N. Hutchins
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
I. Marusic
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
J. Klewicki
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
J. P. Monty
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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†Email address for correspondence: baidyar@unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

Streamwise velocity and wall-shear stress are acquired simultaneously with a hot-wire and an array of azimuthal/spanwise-spaced skin friction sensors in large-scale pipe and boundary layer flow facilities at high Reynolds numbers. These allow for a correlation analysis on a per-scale basis between the velocity and reference skin friction signals to reveal which velocity-based turbulent motions are stochastically coherent with turbulent skin friction. In the logarithmic region, the wall-attached structures in both the pipe and boundary layers show evidence of self-similarity, and the range of scales over which the self-similarity is observed decreases with an increasing azimuthal/spanwise offset between the velocity and the reference skin friction signals. The present empirical observations support the existence of a self-similar range of wall-attached turbulence, which in turn are used to extend the model of Baars et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 823, p. R2) to include the azimuthal/spanwise trends. Furthermore, the region where the self-similarity is observed correspond with the wall height where the mean momentum equation formally admits a self-similar invariant form, and simultaneously where the mean and variance profiles of the streamwise velocity exhibit logarithmic dependence. The experimental observations suggest that the self-similar wall-attached structures follow an aspect ratio of $7:1:1$ in the streamwise, spanwise and wall-normal directions, respectively.

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Boundary Layers: Boundary layer structure Boundary Layers: Pipe flow boundary layer Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 871 , 25 July 2019 , pp. 377 - 400
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