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Turbulent Skin-Friction Drag Reduction at High Reynolds Numbers

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Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of turbulent channel flows at moderately high values of the Reynolds number (Re) are performed to examine how Re affects the capabilities of wall-based spanwise-forcing techniques to achieve turbulent skin-friction drag reduction. With the present new data, a relationship could be derived and validated, which predicts the amount of drag reduction at several values of Re. The present study shows that a drag reduction of nearly 30 % would still be possible for an airplane at flight Reynolds numbers thanks to the spanwise forcing.

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  1. Institute of Fluid Mechanics (ISTM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Davide Gatti

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  1. Zentrum für Informationsdienste und Hochleistungsrechnen (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Wolfgang E. Nagel

  2. Abteilung für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Dietmar H. Kröner

  3. Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Michael M. Resch

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Gatti, D. (2016). Turbulent Skin-Friction Drag Reduction at High Reynolds Numbers. In: Nagel, W.E., Kröner, D.H., Resch, M.M. (eds) High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering ´16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47066-5_26

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