The mechanism for turbulence suppression by opposition control developed by Choi is studied via the analysis of Reynolds stress transport in the initial period of control.It is found that the pressure-strain and pressure-diffusion terms first break up the balance in vertical normal Reynolds stress transport,and result in the final global suppression of turbulence intensities.The transient growth in spanwise normal Reynolds stress is also caused by the pressure-strain term.
We investigates the effect of Taylor-Grtler vortex on the Reynolds stress transport in the rotating turbulent channel flow by direct numerical simulation. The Taylor-Grtler vortex is detected by longitudinal average of velocity fluctuation in the channel and defined as TG fluctuation. It has been found that turbulent diffusion is significant in the Reynolds stress transportation at the suction side of rotating turbulent channel in contrast with the turbulent channel flow without rotation and Taylor-Grtler vortex plays an important role in the turbulent diffusion in Reynolds stress transport. The paper focuses on the low and moderate rotation number, but the effect of the rotation number on the Reynolds stress transport is also reported.
YANG ZiXuan 1 , CUI GuiXiang 1 , XU ChunXiao 1 , SHAO Liang 2 & ZHANG ZhaoShun 1 1 Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
The effect of active control imposed at the wall on optimal structures in wall turbulence is studied by using a linear transient growth model.When the detection plane of the control is located in the buffer layer,the influence of the control on the transient growth of large scale motion becomes negligible as Reynolds number increases.However,if the control signal is detected at the plane located in the logarithm region,the transient growth at large scale can be greatly suppressed.New peak values of transient growth resulting from the strong blowing and suction on the wall exist.The study indicates that a proper selection of control imposed on the wall can suppress the large scale motion in the logarithmic region.