Laboratory realization of an asymptotic wall flow

Klewicki, Joseph

doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.287

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“…Remarkably, can also be estimated for a fixed eddy size, , through the differential form of (3.2), The term on the right-hand side of (3.3) is commonly referred to as the ‘indicator function’ and it has been used to detect the presence and extent of the logarithmic region (e.g. Bernardini, Pirozzoli & Orlandi 2014; Lee & Moser 2015; Hwang & Sung 2018; Yamamoto & Tsuji 2018; Klewicki 2021). It is noteworthy that (3.3) represents the contribution to the Reynolds stresses of the sole wall-attached eddies (type ), and, thus, does not encompass the contribution of wall-detached eddies, or coherent structures characterized by larger wavelengths, e.g.…”

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Identification of the energy contributions associated with wall-attached eddies and very-large-scale motions in the near-neutral atmospheric surface layer through wind LiDAR measurements

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Recent works on wall-bounded flows have corroborated the coexistence of wall-attached eddies, whose statistical features are predicted through Townsend's attached-eddy hypothesis (AEH), and very-large-scale motions (VLSMs). Furthermore, it has been shown that the presence of wall-attached eddies within the logarithmic layer is linked to the appearance of an inverse-power-law region in the streamwise velocity energy spectra, upon significant separation between outer and viscous scales. In this work, a near-neutral atmospheric surface layer is probed with wind light detection and ranging to investigate the contributions to the streamwise velocity energy associated with wall-attached eddies and VLSMs for a very-high-Reynolds-number boundary layer. Energy and linear coherence spectra (LCS) of the streamwise velocity are interrogated to identify the spectral boundaries associated with eddies of different typologies. Inspired by the AEH, an analytical model for the LCS associated with wall-attached eddies is formulated. The experimental results show that the identification of the wall-attached-eddy energy contribution through the analysis of the energy spectra leads to an underestimate of the associated spectral range, maximum height attained and turbulence intensity. This feature is due to the overlap of the energy associated with VLSMs obscuring the inverse-power-law region. The LCS analysis estimates wall-attached eddies with a streamwise/wall-normal ratio of about 14.3 attaining a height of about 30 % of the outer scale of turbulence.

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