Erratum: Alternative Proposal Concerning Laminar Wakes Behind Bluff Bodies at Large Reynolds Number

AIAA Journal ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 2352b-2352b
Author(s):  
PETER D. RICHARDSON
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Large Reynolds Number ◽  
Bluff Bodies ◽  
Alternative Proposal ◽  
Laminar Wakes

A proposal concerning laminar wakes behind bluff bodies at large Reynolds number

1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. K. Batchelor
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Steady Flow ◽  
Bluff Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Large Reynolds Number ◽  
Bluff Bodies ◽  
Proper Solution ◽  
Navier Stokes Equation ◽  
Limit Solution

This note advocates a model of the steady flow about a bluff body at large Reynolds number which is different from the classical free-streamline model of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff. It is suggested that, although the free-streamline model may be a proper solution of the Navier-Stokes equation with μ = 0, it is unlikely to be the limit, as μ → 0, of the solution describing the steady flow due to the presence of a bluff body in an otherwise uniform stream. The limit solution proposed here is one which gives a closed wake.A closed wake contains a standing eddy, or eddies, whose general features can be inferred from the results of an earlier investigation of steady flow in a closed region at large Reynolds number. In all cases, the drag (coefficient) on the body tends to zero as the Reynolds number tends to infinity. The proccedure for finding the details of the closed wake behind two-dimensional and axisymmetrical bodies is described, although no particular case has yet been worked out.

An example of steady laminar flow at large Reynolds number

1960 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iam Proudman
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Boundary Layers ◽  
Tangential Velocity ◽  
Fluid Flows ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Reynolds Number ◽  
Rotational Flows ◽  
Flow Domain ◽  
Source Of Information

The purpose of this note is to describe a particular class of steady fluid flows, for which the techniques of classical hydrodynamics and boundary-layer theory determine uniquely the asymptotic flow for large Reynolds number for each of a continuously varied set of boundary conditions. The flows involve viscous layers in the interior of the flow domain, as well as boundary layers, and the investigation is unusual in that the position and structure of all the viscous layers are determined uniquely. The note is intended to be an illustration of the principles that lead to this determination, not a source of information of practical value.The flows take place in a two-dimensional channel with porous walls through which fluid is uniformly injected or extracted. When fluid is extracted through both walls there are boundary layers on both walls and the flow outside these layers is irrotational. When fluid is extracted through one wall and injected through the other, there is a boundary layer only on the former wall and the inviscid rotational flow outside this layer satisfies the no-slip condition on the other wall. When fluid is injected through both walls there are no boundary layers, but there is a viscous layer in the interior of the channel, across which the second derivative of the tangential velocity is discontinous, and the position of this layer is determined by the requirement that the inviscid rotational flows on either side of it must satisfy the no-slip conditions on the walls.

Probability density functions, skewness, and flatness in large Reynolds number turbulence

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1613-1621 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Tabeling ◽  
G. Zocchi ◽  
F. Belin ◽  
J. Maurer ◽  
H. Willaime
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Probability Density Functions ◽  
Large Reynolds Number ◽  
Density Functions

Turbulent flow between concentric rotating cylinders at large Reynolds number

1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 1515-1518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Lathrop ◽  
Jay Fineberg ◽  
Harry L. Swinney
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Turbulent Flow ◽  
Large Reynolds Number ◽  
Rotating Cylinders

Growth of vortical disturbances entrained in the entrance region of a circular pipe

2021 ◽  
Vol 932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Ricco ◽  
Claudia Alvarenga
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Maximum Growth ◽  
Streamwise Velocity ◽  
Velocity Profiles ◽  
Boundary Region ◽  
Base Flow ◽  
Entrance Region ◽  
Circular Pipe ◽  
Large Reynolds Number

The development and growth of unsteady three-dimensional vortical disturbances entrained in the entry region of a circular pipe is investigated by asymptotic and numerical methods for Reynolds numbers between $1000$ and $10\,000$ , based on the pipe radius and the bulk velocity. Near the pipe mouth, composite asymptotic solutions describe the dynamics of the oncoming disturbances, revealing how these disturbances are altered by the viscous layer attached to the pipe wall. The perturbation velocity profiles near the pipe mouth are employed as rigorous initial conditions for the boundary-region equations, which describe the flow in the limit of low frequency and large Reynolds number. The disturbance flow is initially primarily present within the base-flow boundary layer in the form of streamwise-elongated vortical structures, i.e. the streamwise velocity component displays an intense algebraic growth, while the cross-flow velocity components decay. Farther downstream the disturbance flow occupies the whole pipe, although the base flow is mostly inviscid in the core. The transient growth and subsequent viscous decay are confined in the entrance region, i.e. where the base flow has not reached the fully developed Poiseuille profile. Increasing the Reynolds number and decreasing the frequency causes more intense perturbations, whereas small azimuthal wavelengths and radial characteristic length scales intensify the viscous dissipation of the disturbance. The azimuthal wavelength that causes the maximum growth is found. The velocity profiles are compared successfully with available experimental data and the theoretical results are helpful to interpret the only direct numerical dataset of a disturbed pipe-entry flow.

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