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Published on: February 3, 2014
Streaks and vortices in near-wall turbulence
1School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. chernysh@soton.ac.uk
Abstract:
This paper presents evidence that organization of wall-normal motions plays almost no role in the creation of streaks. This evidence consists of the theory of streak generation not requiring the existence of organized vortices, extensive quantitative comparisons between the theory and direct numerical simulations, including examples of large variation in average spacing of the streaks of different scalars simultaneously present in the flow, and an example of the scalar streaks in an artificially created purely random flow.
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