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Estimation of turbulent convection velocities and corrections to Taylor's approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2009

JUAN C. DEL ÁLAMO  and
JAVIER JIMÉNEZ
JUAN C. DEL ÁLAMO
Affiliation:
MAE Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
JAVIER JIMÉNEZ*
Affiliation:
School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain Centre for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: jimenez@torroja.dmt.upm.es
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Abstract

A new method is introduced for estimating the convection velocity of individual modes in turbulent shear flows that, in contrast to most previous ones, only requires spectral information in the temporal or spatial direction over which a modal decomposition is desired, while only using local derivatives in other directions. If no spectral information is desired, the method provides a natural definition for the average convection velocity, as well as a way to estimate the accuracy of the frozen-turbulence approximation. Existing data from numerical turbulent channels at friction Reynolds numbers Reτ ≤ 1900 are used to validate the new method against classical ones, and to characterize the dependence of the convection velocity on the eddy wavelength and wall distance. The results indicate that the small scales in turbulent channels travel at the local mean velocity, while large ‘global’ modes travel at a more uniform speed proportional to the bulk velocity. To estimate the systematic deviations introduced in experimental spectra by the use of Taylor's approximation with a wavelength-independent convection velocity, a semi-empirical fit to the computed convection velocities is provided. It represents well the data throughout the Reynolds number range of the simulations. It is shown that Taylor's approximation not only displaces the large scales near the wall to shorter apparent wavelengths but also modifies the shape of the spectrum, giving rise to spurious peaks similar to those observed in some experiments. To a lesser extent the opposite is true above the logarithmic layer. The effect increases with the Reynolds number, suggesting that some of the recent challenges to the kx−1 energy spectrum may have to be reconsidered.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 640 , 10 December 2009 , pp. 5 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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