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Enhanced effects from tiny flexible in-wall blips and shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Luisa Pruessner  and
Frank Smith
Luisa Pruessner
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Frank Smith*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
*
†Email address for correspondence: f.smith@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Fluid motion at high Reynolds number over a flexible in-wall blip (a compliant bump or dip in an otherwise fixed wall) is considered theoretically for a very short blip buried low inside a boundary layer. Only the near-wall shear of the oncoming flow affects the local motion past the tiny blip. Slowly evolving features are examined first to allow for variations in the incident flow. Linear and nonlinear solutions show that at certain parameter values (eigenvalues) intensifications occur in which the interactive effect on flow and blip shape is larger by an order of magnitude than at most parameter values. Similar findings apply to the boundary layer with several tiny blips present or to channel flows with blips of almost any length. These intensifications lead on to fully nonlinear unsteady motion as a second stage, after some delay, thus combining with finite-time breakups to form a distinct path into transition of the flow.

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Flow Control: Drag reduction
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 772 , 10 June 2015 , pp. 16 - 41
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