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Scaling of near-wall turbulence in pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

MARCUS HULTMARK ,
SEAN C. C. BAILEY  and
ALEXANDER J. SMITS
MARCUS HULTMARK
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
SEAN C. C. BAILEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
ALEXANDER J. SMITS*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: asmits@princeton.edu
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Abstract

New measurements of the streamwise component of the turbulence intensity in a fully developed pipe flow at Reynolds numbers up to 145 000 indicate that the magnitude of the near-wall peak is invariant with Reynolds number in location and magnitude. The results agree with previous pipe flow data that have sufficient spatial resolution to avoid spatial filtering effects, but stand in contrast to similar results obtained in boundary layers, where the magnitude of the peak displays a prominent Reynolds number dependence, although its position is fixed at the same location as in pipe flow. This indicates that the interaction between the inner and outer regions is different in pipe flows and boundary layers.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 649 , 25 April 2010 , pp. 103 - 113
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