On the generation of turbulent wall friction
- 1 February 1994
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 6 (2) , 634-641
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868303
Abstract
The formation of streaky velocity structures in the near wall region of turbulent boundary layers is studied through a simplified two‐dimensional computational model in the plane normal to the average velocity. It is shown that the redistribution of the longitudinal velocity by streamwise vortices produces features very similar to those observed in the experiments, and that compact streamwise vortices form naturally from more general vorticity distributions. It is also shown, both numerically and analytically, that one effect of the formation of the streaks is to increase the average wall friction, and it is suggested that this effect is responsible for the higher friction in turbulent boundary layers, as opposed to laminar ones. An approximate quantitative analysis of the process supports this assumption.Keywords
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