TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics of vortex packets in turbulent boundary layers
AU - Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram
AU - Longmire, Ellen K.
AU - Marusic, Ivan
PY - 2003/3/10
Y1 - 2003/3/10
N2 - Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used to measure all three instantaneous components of the velocity field in streamwise-spanwise planes of a turbulent boundary layer at Reτ = 1060 (Reθ = 2500). Datasets were obtained in the logarithmic layer and beyond. The vector fields in the log layer (z+ = 92 and 150) revealed signatures of vortex packets similar to those proposed by Adrian and co-workers in their PIV experiments. Groups of legs of hairpin vortices appeared to be coherently arranged in the streamwise direction. These regions also generated substantial Reynolds shear stress, sometimes as high as 40 times -ūw. A feature extraction algorithm was developed to automate the identification and characterization of these packets of hairpin vortices. Identified patches contributed 28% to -uw while occupying only 4% of the total area at z+ = 92. At z+ = 150, these patches occupied 4.5% of the total area while contributing 25% to -ūw. Beyond the log layer (z+ = 198 and 530), the spatial organization into packets is seen to break down.
AB - Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) was used to measure all three instantaneous components of the velocity field in streamwise-spanwise planes of a turbulent boundary layer at Reτ = 1060 (Reθ = 2500). Datasets were obtained in the logarithmic layer and beyond. The vector fields in the log layer (z+ = 92 and 150) revealed signatures of vortex packets similar to those proposed by Adrian and co-workers in their PIV experiments. Groups of legs of hairpin vortices appeared to be coherently arranged in the streamwise direction. These regions also generated substantial Reynolds shear stress, sometimes as high as 40 times -ūw. A feature extraction algorithm was developed to automate the identification and characterization of these packets of hairpin vortices. Identified patches contributed 28% to -uw while occupying only 4% of the total area at z+ = 92. At z+ = 150, these patches occupied 4.5% of the total area while contributing 25% to -ūw. Beyond the log layer (z+ = 198 and 530), the spatial organization into packets is seen to break down.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0022112002003270
DO - 10.1017/S0022112002003270
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037430119
SN - 0022-1120
VL - 478
SP - 35
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Fluid Mechanics
JF - Journal of Fluid Mechanics
ER -