Transitional and turbulent boundary layer (BL) flows possess dramatically larger wall-shear stresses and surface heat fluxes than their laminar counterparts. Locally, this can be explained by appealing to the presence of spatiotemporally coherent velocity and temperature regions that enhance the momentum and thermal transport across the BL. However, these coherent structures are seldom present alone, but usually influenced by other physical phenomena, such as the streamwise growth of BLs or freestream pressure gradients. A moment of enthalpy integral equation is introduced to quantify how turbulence and other flow phenomena enhance surface heat flux. Results from a direct numerical simulation of a transitional and turbulent BL are used to demonstrate the proposed analysis method and to form a quantitative assessment of the BL physics. The integral analysis demonstrated in this paper for canonical turbulent flows provides an interpretable analysis tool for unlocking key BL physics, including future extensions to compressible BLs, freestream pressure gradients, and the evaluation of flow control schemes.


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    Title :

    Quantifying How Turbulence Enhances Boundary Layer Skin Friction and Surface Heat Transfer


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 61 , 9 ; 3900-3909


    Publication date :

    2023-09-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper , Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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