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Aspects of turbulent / non-turbulent interfaces
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Hunt, J. C. R. Bisset, D. K. Rogers, M. M. |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Description | A distinct boundary between turbulent and non-turbulent regions in a fluid of otherwise constant properties is found in many laboratory and engineering turbulent flows, including jets, mixing layers, boundary layers and wakes. Generally, the flow has mean shear in at least one direction within t he turbulent zone, but the non-turbulent zones have no shear (adjacent laminar shear is a different case, e.g. transition in a boundary layer). There may be purely passive differences between the turbulent and non-turbulent zones, e.g. small variations in temperature or scalar concentration, for which turbulent mixing is an important issue. The boundary has several major characteristics of interest for the present study. Firstly, the boundary advances into the non-turbulent fluid, or in other words, nonturbulent fluid is entrained. Secondly, the change in turbulence properties across the boundary is remarkably abrupt; strong turbulent motions come close to the nonturbulent fluid, promoting entrainment. Thirdly, the boundary is irregular with a continually changing convoluted shape, which produces statistical intermittency. Its shape is contorted at all scales of the turbulent motion. |
| File Size | 692172 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20000103536 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t90916p9j |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1999-11-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics Turbulent Flow Entrainment Wakes Scalars Regions Shapes Boundary Layers Turbulent Mixing Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |