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Model-based design of transverse wall oscillations for turbulent drag reduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2012

Rashad Moarref  and
Mihailo R. Jovanović
Rashad Moarref
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Mihailo R. Jovanović*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: mihailo@umn.edu
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Abstract

Over the last two decades, both experiments and simulations have demonstrated that transverse wall oscillations with properly selected amplitude and frequency can reduce turbulent drag by as much as . In this paper, we develop a model-based approach for designing oscillations that suppress turbulence in a channel flow. We utilize eddy-viscosity-enhanced linearization of the turbulent flow with control in conjunction with turbulence modelling to determine skin-friction drag in a simulation-free manner. The Boussinesq eddy viscosity hypothesis is used to quantify the effect of fluctuations on the mean velocity in flow subject to control. In contrast to the traditional approach that relies on numerical simulations, we determine the turbulent viscosity from the second-order statistics of the linearized model driven by white-in-time stochastic forcing. The spatial power spectrum of the forcing is selected to ensure that the linearized model for uncontrolled flow reproduces the turbulent energy spectrum. The resulting correction to the turbulent mean velocity induced by small-amplitude wall movements is then used to identify the optimal frequency of drag-reducing oscillations. In addition, the control net efficiency and the turbulent flow structures that we obtain agree well with the results of numerical simulations and experiments. This demonstrates the predictive power of our model-based approach to controlling turbulent flows and is expected to pave the way for successful flow control at higher Reynolds numbers than currently possible.

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Flow Control: Drag reduction Turbulent Flows: Turbulence control Turbulent Flows: Turbulence modelling
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 707 , 25 September 2012 , pp. 205 - 240
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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