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A turbulent equilibrium boundary layer near separation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Per Egil Skåre  and
Per-Åge Krogstad
Per Egil Skåre
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, N-7034 Trondheim-NTH, Norway
Per-Åge Krogstad
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, Thermo and Fluid Dynamics, Norwegian Institute of Technology, N-7034 Trondheim-NTH, Norway
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Abstract

The experimental results for an equilibrium boundary layer in a strong adverse pressure gradient flow are reported. The measurements show that similarity in the mean flow and the turbulent stresses has been achieved over a substantial streamwise distance where the skin friction coefficient is kept at a low, constant level. Although the Reynolds stress distribution across the layer is entirely different from the flow at zero pressure gradient, the ratios between the different turbulent stress components were found to be similar, showing that the mechanism for distributing the turbulent energy between the different components remains unaffected by the mean flow pressure gradient. Close to the surface the gradient of the mixing length was found to increase from Kl ≈ 0.41 to Kl ≈ 0.78, almost twice as high as for the zero pressure gradient case. Similarity in the triple correlations was also found to be good. The correlations show that there is a considerable diffusion of turbulent energy from the central part of the boundary layer towards the wall. The diffusion mechanism is caused by a second peak in the turbulence production, located at y/δ ≈ 0.45. This production was for the present case almost as strong as the production found near the wall. The energy budget for the turbulent kinetic energy also shows that strong dissipation is not restricted to the wall region, but is significant for most of the layer.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 272 , 10 August 1994 , pp. 319 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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