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The evolution of large-scale motions in turbulent pipe flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2015

Leo H. O. Hellström ,
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani  and
Alexander J. Smits
Leo H. O. Hellström*
Affiliation:
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Alexander J. Smits
Affiliation:
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
*
†Email address for correspondence: lhellstr@Princeton.EDU
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Abstract

A dual-plane snapshot proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) analysis of turbulent pipe flow at a Reynolds number of 104 000 is presented. The high-speed particle image velocimetry data were simultaneously acquired in two planes, a cross-stream plane (2D–3C) and a streamwise plane (2D–2C) on the pipe centreline. The cross-stream plane analysis revealed large structures with a spatio-temporal extent of $1{-}2R$, where $R$ is the pipe radius. The temporal evolution of these large-scale structures is examined using the time-shifted correlation of the cross-stream snapshot POD coefficients, identifying the low-energy intermediate modes responsible for the transition between the large-scale modes. By conditionally averaging based on the occurrence/intensity of a given cross-stream snapshot POD mode, a complex structure consisting of wall-attached and -detached large-scale structures is shown to be associated with the most energetic modes. There is a pseudo-alignment of these large structures, which together create structures with a spatio-temporal extent of approximately $6R$, which appears to explain the formation of the very-large-scale motions previously observed in pipe flow.

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Turbulent Flows: Turbulent boundary layers Turbulent Flows: Turbulent Flows
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 779 , 25 September 2015 , pp. 701 - 715
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