Coherent pressure structures in turbulent channel flow
arXiv:2108.10833 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.074606
Abstract
Most of the studies on pressure fluctuations in wall-bounded turbulent flows aim at obtaining statistics as power spectra and scaling laws, especially at the walls. In the present study we study energetic coherent pressure structures of turbulent channel flows, aiming at a characterization of dominant coherent structures throughout the channel. Coherent structures are detected using spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD) and modeled using resolvent analysis, similar to related works dealing with velocity fluctuations, but using pressure fluctuations as the output of interest. The resolvent operator was considered with and without the Cess eddy viscosity model. Direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of incompressible turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds numbers of approximately 180 and 550 were employed as databases. Three representative dominant structures emerged from a preliminary spectral analysis: near-wall, large-scale and spanwise-coherent structures. For frequency-wavenumber combinations corresponding to these three representative structures, SPOD results show a strong dominance of the leading mode, highlighting low-rank behavior of pressure fluctuations. The leading resolvent mode closely agrees with the first SPOD mode, providing support to studies that showed better performance of resolvent-based estimators when predicting pressure fluctuations compared to velocity fluctuations. The dominant mechanisms of the analyzed modes are seen to be the generation of quasi-streamwise vortices with pressure fluctuations appearing close to vortex centers. A study on the individual contributions of the nonlinear terms (treated as forcing in resolvent analysis) to the pressure output reveals that each forcing component plays a constructive role to the input-output formulation, which also helps understanding the weaker role of forcing color in driving pressure fluctuations.
30 pages, 34 figures
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