Luo Ji-sheng

The investigation of coherent structures in the wall region of a supersonic turbulent boundary layer based on DNS database

Through temporal mode direct numerical simulation, flow field database of a fully developed turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate with Mach number 4.5 and Reynolds number Reθ=1094 has been obtained. Commonly used detection methods in experiments are applied to detecting coherent structures in the flow field, and it is found that coherent structures do exist in the wall region of a supersonic turbulent boundary layer. The detected results show that a low-speed streak is detected by using the Mu-level method, the rising parts of this streak are detected by using the second quadrant method, and the crossing regions from a low-speed streak to the high-speed one are detected by using the VITA method respectively. Notwithstanding that different regions are detected by different methods, they are all accompanied by quasi-stream-wise vortex structures.

Modeling of individual coherent structures in wall region of a turbulent boundary layer

Models for individual coherent structures in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer are proposed. Method of numerical simulations is used to follow the evolution of the structures. It is found that the proposed model does bear many features of coherent structures found in experiments.

Direct numerical simulation of a supersonic turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate and its analysis

Temporal mode direct numerical simulation (DNS) has been done for a supersonic turbulent boundary layer on a flat plate with Mach number 4.5. It was found that the mean flow profile, the normal-wise distribution of turbulent Mach number and the root mean square (RMS) of the fluctuations of various variables, as well as the Reynolds stresses, bore similarity in nature, when the turbulence reached a fully developed state. But the compressibility effect was strong and must be considered. The strong Reynolds analogy (SRA) and the Morkovin hypothesis were no longer valid. From the end of transition to the fully developed state of turbulence, it was in the transient period, for which the similarity did not hold.

Mechanism of transition in a hypersonic sharp cone boundary layer with zero angle of attack

Firstly, the steady laminar flow field of a hypersonic sharp cone boundary layer with zero angle of attack was computed. Then, two groups of finite amplitude T-S wave disturbances were introduced at the entrance of the computational field, and the spatial mode transition process was studied by direct numerical simulation (DNS) method. The mechanism of the transition process was analyzed. It was found that the change of the stability characteristics of the mean flow profile was the key issue. Furthermore, the characteristics of evolution for the disturbances of different modes in the hypersonic sharp cone boundary layer were discussed.

Numerical investigation of evolution of disturbances in supersonic sharp cone boundary layers

The spatial evolution of 2-D disturbances in supersonic sharp cone boundary layers was investigated by direct numerical simulation (DNS) in high order compact difference scheme. The results suggested that, although the normal velocity in the sharp cone boundary layer was not small, the evolution of amplitude and phase for small amplitude disturbances would be well in accordance with the results obtained by the linear stability theory (LST) which supposes the flow was parallel. The evolution of some finite amplitude disturbances was also investigated, and the characteristic of the evolution was shown. Shocklets were also found when the amplitude of disturbances increased over some value.

Weak Nonlinearity of Ablative Rayleigh–Taylor Instability

The weakly nonlinear regime of single mode ablative Rayleigh–Taylor instability is studied, with consideration of preheat effect and the width of the ablation front. The Rayleigh–Taylor linear growth rate agrees well with the direct numerical simulation. For the density perturbation, the amplitude distribution of the fundamental mode has one peak value whereas those of the second and third harmonics have two and three peak values, respectively. Harmonics generation versus wave number is also given and it is close to the result of direct numerical simulation.

Compressible Rayleigh–Taylor Instability with Preheat in Inertial Confinement Fusion

The compressible Rayleigh–Taylor instability of accelerated ablation front is analysed in consideration of the preheat effects, and the corresponding eigen-problem is solved numerically using the fourth-order accurate two-point compact difference scheme. Both the growth rate and perturbation profiles are obtained, and the obtained growth rate is close to the results of direct numerical simulation. Our results show that the growth rate is more reduced and the cutoff wave length becomes longer as preheat increases.

A mechanism for excitation of coherent structures in wall region of a turbulent boundary layer

The problem of how the coherent structures in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer could be excited by the disturbances from the outer region was investigated by using direct numerical simulation (DNS) method. The results show that velocity disturbances at the upper boundary of the wall region could excite coherent structures in the wall region, thus offering a more comprehensive model for individual coherent structures.The problem of how the coherent structures in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer could be excited by the disturbances from the outer region was investigated by using direct numerical simulation (DNS) method. The results show that velocity disturbances at the upper boundary of the wall region could excite coherent structures in the wall region,thus offering a more comprehensive model for individual coherent structures.

A theoretical model of the coherent structure in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer

In this paper, the formation of the coherent structures in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer was studied, using the nonlinear theory of the hydrodynamic stability. The spanwise and streamwise wavelengths of the most amplified unstable wave obtained by this study were found in good agreement with the experiments, which makes the distinct feature of this study in the present paper, as the basis of the stability analysis, a more rational velocity profile has been used, which is different from that of the turbulent mean flow. And also, the new nonlinear theory was used. The result is useful in understanding of the quasi-periodicity of the coherent structure in the turbulent boundary layer.

On the eddy viscosity model of periodic turbulent shear flows

Physical argument shows that eddy viscosity is essentially different from molecular viscosity. By direct numerical simulation, it was shown that for periodic turbulent flows, there is phase difference between Reynolds stress and rate of strain. This finding posed great challenge to turbulence modeling, because most turbulence modeling, which use the idea of eddy viscosity, do not take this effect into account.