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Secondary motion in turbulent pipe flow with three-dimensional roughness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2018

L. Chan Open the ORCID record for L. Chan [Opens in a new window] ,
M. MacDonald Open the ORCID record for M. MacDonald [Opens in a new window] ,
D. Chung Open the ORCID record for D. Chung [Opens in a new window] ,
N. Hutchins  and
A. Ooi
L. Chan*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
M. MacDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
D. Chung
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
N. Hutchins
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
A. Ooi
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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†Email address for correspondence: lzhchan@unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

The occurrence of secondary flows is investigated for three-dimensional sinusoidal roughness where the wavelength and height of the roughness elements are systematically altered. The flow spanned from the transitionally rough regime up to the fully rough regime and the solidity of the roughness ranged from a wavy, sparse roughness to a dense roughness. Analysing the time-averaged velocity, secondary flows are observed in all of the cases, reflected in the coherent stress profile which is dominant in the vicinity of the roughness elements. The roughness sublayer, defined as the region where the coherent stress is non-zero, scales with the roughness wavelength when the roughness is geometrically scaled (proportional increase in both roughness height and wavelength) and when the wavelength increases at fixed roughness height. Premultiplied energy spectra of the streamwise velocity turbulent fluctuations show that energy is reorganised from the largest streamwise wavelengths to the shorter streamwise wavelengths. The peaks in the premultiplied spectra at the streamwise and spanwise wavelengths are correlated with the roughness wavelength in the fully rough regime. Current simulations show that the spanwise scale of roughness determines the occurrence of large-scale secondary flows.

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Boundary Layers: Boundary layer structure Boundary Layers: Pipe flow boundary layer Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 854 , 10 November 2018 , pp. 5 - 33
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