Correlations among turbulent shear stress, turbulent kinetic energy,and axial turbulence intensity

AIAA Journal ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 859-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. M. Alshamani
1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ota ◽  
H. Motegi

Turbulence measurements were made in the separated, reattached, and redeveloped regions of an axisymmetric incompressible airflow over a longitudinal circular cylinder with blunt leading edge. Three components of turbulent fluctuating velocity and the turbulent shear stress are presented. In the boundary layer downstream of the reattachment point, Prandtl’s mixing length and turbulent kinetic energy length scale are estimated, and the correlation between the turbulent shear stress and the turbulent kinetic energy is described.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terukazu Ota ◽  
Masashi Narita

Turbulence measurements were made in the separated, reattached, and redeveloped regions of a two-dimensional incompressible air flow over a flat plate with finite thickness and blunt leading edge. In the boundary layer downstream of the reattachment point, Prandtl’s mixing length and turbulent kinetic energy length scale are estimated, and the correlation between the turbulent shear stress and the turbulent kinetic energy is described.


1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sedat Biringen

The concept of diffusion by bulk convection formulated by Bradshaw is applied to the transport equations for the turbulent kinetic energy, turbulent shear stress and an integral length scale. The resulting set of hyperbolic partial differential equations is solved by an explicit finite-difference scheme for the cases of incompressible axisymmetric wakes and jets in a coflowing air stream. It is found that the profiles of mean velocity and shear stress are almost insensitive to the empirical input whereas the profiles of kinetic energy are very sensitive.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 576
Author(s):  
Ronald M. C. So

The Reynolds stress equations for two-dimensional and axisymmetric turbulent shear flows are simplified by invoking local equilibrium and boundary layer approximations in the near-wall region. These equations are made determinate by appropriately modelling the pressure–velocity correlation and dissipation rate terms and solved analytically to give a relation between the turbulent shear stress τρ and the kinetic energy of turbulence (k =q22). This is derived without external body force present. The result is identical to that proposed by Nevzgljadov in A Phenomenological Theory of Turbulence, who formulated it through phenomenological arguments based on atmospheric boundary layer measurements. The analytical approach is extended to treat turbulent flows with external body forces. A general relation τρ = a11 - AFRiFq22 is obtained for these flows, where FRiF is a function of the gradient Richardson number RiF, and a1 is found to depend on turbulence models and their assumed constants. One set of constants yields a1= 0.378, while another gives a1= 0.328. With no body force, F ≡ 1 and the relation reduces to the Nevzgljadov equation with a1 determined to be either 0.378 or 0.328, depending on model constants set assumed. The present study suggests that 0.328 is in line with Nevzgljadov's proposal. Thus, the present approach provides a theoretical base to evaluate the turbulent shear stress for flows with external body forces. The result is used to reduce the k–e model to a one-equation model that solves the k-equation, the shear stress and kinetic energy equation, and an e evaluated by assuming isotropic eddy viscosity behavior.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Liang Chen ◽  
Faming Zhang ◽  
Chengteng Lv ◽  
Yi feng Zhou

1976 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hanjalić ◽  
B. E. Launder

The problem of closing the Reynolds-stress and dissipation-rate equations at low Reynolds numbers is considered, specific forms being suggested for the direct effects of viscosity on the various transport processes. By noting that the correlation coefficient$\overline{uv^2}/\overline{u^2}\overline{v^2} $is nearly constant over a considerable portion of the low-Reynolds-number region adjacent to a wall the closure is simplified to one requiring the solution of approximated transport equations for only the turbulent shear stress, the turbulent kinetic energy and the energy dissipation rate. Numerical solutions are presented for turbulent channel flow and sink flows at low Reynolds number as well as a case of a severely accelerated boundary layer in which the turbulent shear stress becomes negligible compared with the viscous stresses. Agreement with experiment is generally encouraging.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Volino ◽  
Michael P. Schultz ◽  
Christopher M. Pratt

Conditional sampling has been performed on data from a transitional boundary layer subject to high (initially 9%) freestream turbulence and strong (K=ν/U∞2dU∞/dx as high as 9×10−6) acceleration. Methods for separating the turbulent and nonturbulent zone data based on the instantaneous streamwise velocity and the turbulent shear stress were tested and found to agree. Mean velocity profiles were clearly different in the turbulent and nonturbulent zones, and skin friction coefficients were as much as 70% higher in the turbulent zone. The streamwise fluctuating velocity, in contrast, was only about 10% higher in the turbulent zone. Turbulent shear stress differed by an order of magnitude, and eddy viscosity was three to four times higher in the turbulent zone. Eddy transport in the nonturbulent zone was still significant, however, and the nonturbulent zone did not behave like a laminar boundary layer. Within each of the two zones there was considerable self-similarity from the beginning to the end of transition. This may prove useful for future modeling efforts.


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