22.10.2014 Views

The significance of coherent flow structures for the turbulent mixing ...

The significance of coherent flow structures for the turbulent mixing ...

The significance of coherent flow structures for the turbulent mixing ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

£<br />

7.4 Spatio-temporal correlations ×_ñ ¬\ with<br />

¿<br />

£<br />

location are convected by about 130 wall-units (40% <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> distance between <strong>the</strong> measurement<br />

planes) <strong>for</strong> a temporal delay ×_ìË» ¬é¯ <strong>of</strong> . Thus, <strong>the</strong> maximum correlation value is relatively<br />

low, especially near <strong>the</strong> wall, but it slightly increases with ¹ increasing due to <strong>the</strong> larger correlation<br />

length and larger local convection velocity. An o<strong>the</strong>r interesting effect is <strong>the</strong> shift <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> maximum towards larger wall distances. However, both observations can be explained by<br />

means <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> result shown in figure 5.5 on page 80. When <strong>the</strong> correlation in <strong>the</strong> lower left<br />

column is considered with <strong>the</strong> maximum ¹¥»"¬ °<br />

at , <strong>the</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>ile ×_ñ » ¬ Â "Â ° ¬!<br />

¿#" °<br />

at<br />

corresponds to <strong>the</strong> dashed graph in <strong>the</strong> left centre row <strong>of</strong> figure 7.15, provided <strong>the</strong> structural<br />

changes are negligible, so that it can be assumed that <strong>the</strong> <strong>flow</strong> structure convects down-stream<br />

with an average velocity <strong>of</strong> ° ä » (local mean velocity at ¹ » ¬ °<br />

) over 130 wall-units in<br />

¿<br />

stream-wise direction. In this case it can be estimated that <strong>the</strong> highest correlation value at<br />

¿" °<br />

is 0.54 in <strong>the</strong> lower left column <strong>of</strong> figure 5.5, which nicely matches with <strong>the</strong><br />

results from <strong>the</strong> present investigation, and <strong>the</strong> corresponding position <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> maximum is at<br />

. This implies that <strong>the</strong> general properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> correlations can be well understood<br />

<br />

×_ñ »<br />

¬$<br />

1<br />

1<br />

¹&»&%<br />

0.8<br />

0.8<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =0)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =20)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

0<br />

1<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

200<br />

£<br />

y + +∆y +<br />

300<br />

£<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

0<br />

1<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

200<br />

£<br />

y + +∆y +<br />

300<br />

£<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

0.8<br />

0.8<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =8)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =25)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

0<br />

1<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

£<br />

200 300<br />

y + +∆y + ¤<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

0<br />

1<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

£<br />

200 300<br />

y + +∆y + ¤<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

0.8<br />

0.8<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =15)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

R vv<br />

(∆t + =30)<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

0.2<br />

0<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

200<br />

£<br />

y + +∆y +<br />

300<br />

£<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

0<br />

£<br />

0<br />

100<br />

£<br />

200<br />

£<br />

y + +∆y +<br />

300<br />

£<br />

400<br />

£<br />

500<br />

£<br />

FIGURE 7.16: ˜ ÔËÔ correlation measured at ˜ š œ§§žž and © » š Ñ ž Æ Î§ž ÆËÏ ž ÆÐ žž ÆËÑ ž±ž Æ Î§ž±ž ÆÓÒ žž (see<br />

location <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> maximum) <strong>for</strong> various temporal delays (see axis label).<br />

153

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!