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Proposal of control laws for turbulent skin friction reduction based on resolvent analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2019

Aika Kawagoe ,
Satoshi Nakashima ,
Mitul Luhar Open the ORCID record for Mitul Luhar [Opens in a new window]  and
Koji Fukagata Open the ORCID record for Koji Fukagata [Opens in a new window]
Aika Kawagoe
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Satoshi Nakashima
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
Mitul Luhar
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Koji Fukagata*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
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†Email address for correspondence: fukagata@mech.keio.ac.jp
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Abstract

This paper evaluates and modifies the so-called suboptimal control technique for turbulent skin friction reduction through a combination of low-order modelling and direct numerical simulation (DNS). In a previous study, Nakashima et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 828, 2017, pp. 496–526) employed resolvent analysis to show that the efficacy of suboptimal control was mixed across spectral space when the streamwise wall shear stress (case ST) was used as a sensor signal, i.e. specific regions of spectral space showed drag increment. This observation suggests that drag reduction may be attained if control is applied selectively in spectral space. DNS results presented in the present study, however, do not show a significant effect on the flow with selective control. A posteriori analyses attribute this lack of efficacy to a much lower actuation amplitude in the simulations compared to model assumptions. Building on these observations, resolvent analysis is used to design and provide a preliminary assessment of modified control laws that also rely on sensing the streamwise wall shear stress. Control performance is then assessed by means of DNS. The proposed control laws generate as much as $10\,\%$ drag reduction, and these results are broadly consistent with resolvent-based predictions. The physical mechanisms leading to drag reduction are assessed via conditional sampling. It is shown that the new control laws effectively suppress the near-wall quasi-streamwise vortices. A physically intuitive explanation is proposed based on a separate evaluation of clockwise and anticlockwise vortices.

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Flow Control: Drag reduction Turbulent Flows: Turbulence control Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 866 , 10 May 2019 , pp. 810 - 840
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press 

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