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Direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow in a flow domain of length \(L=42R\) and a friction Reynolds number of \(Re_{\tau } =180\) and two different wall normal grid refinements were carried out and investigated in terms of turbulent high-order statistics. The phenomenology of large local wall-normal velocity fluctuations (velocity spikes), is discussed through time series and instantaneous flow field realizations. Due to their rare appearance both in space and time, statistical high-order moments take long time to converge. A convergence study is performed and for fully converged statistics the sensitivity of the wall-normal kurtosis component value on the wall is investigated. The fourth order statistical moment of the wall-normal velocity needs to be integrated at least \(\varDelta \tau ^+ = 2.4\cdot 10^{11}\) units of an averaging coordinate in time and space to obtain a fully converged flatness value in the very vicinity of the wall. Furthermore, a near-wall grid spacing of at least \(\varDelta r^+=0.11\) is needed to fully satisfy the no-slip boundary condition in terms of wall-normal flatness.
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Bauer, C., Feldmann, D., Wagner, C. (2018). Revisiting the Higher-Order Statistical Moments in Turbulent Pipe Flow Using Direct Numerical Simulations. In: Dillmann, A., et al. New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics XI. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, vol 136. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64519-3_7
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