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Optimal bursts in turbulent channel flow

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Bursts are recurrent, transient, highly energetic events characterized by localized variations of velocity and vorticity in turbulent wall-bounded flows. In this work, a nonlinear energy optimization strategy is employed to investigate whether the origin of such bursting events in a turbulent channel flow can be related to the presence of high-amplitude coherent structures. The results show that bursting events correspond to optimal energy flow structures embedded in the fully turbulent flow. In particular, optimal structures inducing energy peaks at short time are initially composed of highly oscillating vortices and streaks near the wall. At moderate friction Reynolds numbers, through the bursts, energy is exchanged between the streaks and packets of hairpin vortices of different sizes reaching the outer scale. Such an optimal flow configuration reproduces well the spatial spectra as well as the probability density function typical of turbulent flows, recovering the mechanism of direct-inverse energy cascade. These results represent an important step towards understanding the dynamics of turbulence at moderate Reynolds numbers and pave the way to new nonlinear techniques to manipulate and control the self-sustained turbulence dynamics.
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hal-01492000 , version 1 (13-11-2017)

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Mirko Farano, Stefania Cherubini, Jean-Christophe Robinet, Pietro de Palma. Optimal bursts in turbulent channel flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017, 817, pp.35-60. ⟨10.1017/jfm.2017.107⟩. ⟨hal-01492000⟩
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