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IUTAM Symposium on Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures: Significance in Turbulence Dynamics pp 53–70Cite as

THE NEAR-WALL STRUCTURES OF TURBULENT WALL FLOWS

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Models for the viscous and buffer layers over smooth walls are reviewed. It is shown that there is a family of numerically-exact nonlinear structures which account for about half of the energy production and dissipation in the wall layer. The other half can be modelled by the unsteady bursting of those structures. Many of the best-known characteristics of the wall layer, such as the lateral spacing among the streaks, are well predicted by these models. The limitations of minimal models are then discussed, and it is noted that a better approximation is to represent the velocity streaks as ‘semi-infinite’ wakes of the wall-normal velocity structures, both in the buffer and in the logarithmic layer. The consequences of this characterization on the causal relation between bursting structures are also briefly discussed.

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  1. School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Javier Jiménez

  2. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Genta Kawahara

  3. School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica, Madrid, 28040, Spain

    Mark P. Simens & Juan C. del Álamo

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Jiménez, J., Kawahara, G., Simens, M.P., del Álamo, J.C. (2006). THE NEAR-WALL STRUCTURES OF TURBULENT WALL FLOWS. In: KIDA, S. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Elementary Vortices and Coherent Structures: Significance in Turbulence Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4181-0_6

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