Identifying turbulent shadowing of 3D Exact Coherent Structures from measurements of 2D-2C velocity measurements in small-aspect-ratio Taylor-Couette flow
Abstract
Recent work suggests that the dynamics of turbulent wall-bounded flows are guided by unstable solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation that have nontrivial spatial structure and temporally simple dynamics. These solutions, known as exact coherent structures (ECS), are presumed to play a key role in a fundamentally deterministic description of turbulence. Prior work on the role of ECS in 3D turbulence focused mainly on open flows in small computational domains with streamwise-periodic boundary conditions that differ from the inflow-outflow boundary conditions of corresponding experimental tests, which relied on the use of Taylor's hypothesis to obtain laboratory measurements. Here we report evidence for ECS in a closed 3D turbulent flow by directly comparing experimental measurements with ECS computed numerically in a small-aspect-ratio (Γ = 1) turbulent Taylor-Couette flow with radius ratio η = 0 . 71 which does not require the use of Taylor's hypothesis. We show that shadowing of ECS by turbulent flow can be detected by comparing time-resolved 2D-2C velocity measurements in a 2D plane of the flow with the corresponding slice of an ECS.
Supported by ARO (Grants W911NF-15-10471, W911NF-16-10281).- Publication:
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APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020APS..DFDY03016C