Unstable turbulent channel flow response to spanwise-heterogeneous heat fluxes: Prandtl's secondary flow of the third kind

ST Salesky, M Calaf, W Anderson - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Turbulent secondary flows are defined as Prandtl's secondary flow of the first or second kind,
the former produced by stretching and/or tilting of vorticity, the latter produced via spatial …

Challenges and perspective on the modelling of high-Re, incompressible, non-equilibrium, rough-wall boundary layers

R García-Mayoral, D Chung, P Durbin… - Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present paper gives an overview of the recent modelling activities under NATO-STO
AVT-349, focussed on the understanding and modelling of boundary layers for …

Flow resistance over heterogeneous roughness made of spanwise-alternating sandpaper strips

B Frohnapfel, L von Deyn, J Yang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
The Reynolds number dependent flow resistance of heterogeneous rough surfaces is
largely unknown at present. The present work provides novel reference data for spanwise …

Spatial resolution issues in rough wall turbulence

D Gatti, A Stroh, B Frohnapfel, R Örlü - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
The question whether spatial resolution effects should be accounted for when performing
hot-wire (or particle image velocimetry) measurements in turbulent wall-bounded flows over …

Linearised Reynolds-averaged predictions of secondary currents in turbulent channels with topographic heterogeneity

G Zampino, D Lasagna… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
A rapid predictive tool based on the linearised Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations
is proposed in this work to investigate secondary currents generated by streamwise …

Simulation of turbulent flow over roughness strips

J Neuhauser, K Schäfer, D Gatti… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Heterogeneous roughness in the form of streamwise aligned strips is known to generate
large scale secondary motions under turbulent flow conditions that can induce the intriguing …

Turbulent impinging jets on rough surfaces

F Secchi, T Häber, D Gatti, S Schulz… - GAMM …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work presents direct numerical simulations (DNS) of a circular turbulent jet impinging
on rough plates. The roughness is once resolved through an immersed boundary method …

Simulation and scaling analysis of periodic surfaces with small-scale roughness in turbulent Ekman flow

J Kostelecky, C Ansorge - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Simulation and scaling analysis of periodic surfaces with small-scale roughness in turbulent
Ekman flow Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2024), vol. 992, A8, doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.542 Simulation …

The influence of roughness-element-spacing on turbulent entrainment over spanwise heterogeneous roughness

Y Long, J Wang, C Pan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Spanwise heterogeneous surfaces have been found to modulate local turbulent entrainment
by inducing large-scale secondary flows (SFs). This work aims to clarify the variations of the …

The effect of spanwise heterogeneous surfaces on mixed convection in turbulent channels

K Schäfer, B Frohnapfel, JP Mellado - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Turbulent mixed convection in channel flows with heterogeneous surfaces is studied using
direct numerical simulations. The relative importance of buoyancy and shear effects …