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基于统计态动力学的湍流埃克曼层研究

Statistical State Dynamics Based Study of the Turbulent Ekman Layer

Harvard University(哈佛大学)

Eojin Kim, Brian F. Farrell

AI总结:

本研究通过统计态动力学方法揭示埃克曼层中RSS的形成机制,发现雷诺应力驱动不稳定性与曲率不稳定性共同作用,为湍流机理提供新见解。

摘要:

在大气和海洋行星边界层以及实验室尺度的壁界剪切流中,轴向卷和条纹结构(RSS)都是显著特征。尽管这些系统中RSS的结构相似性,但形成和维持RSS的机制仍存在争议。本研究证明,之前在壁界剪切流中使用纳维-斯托克斯方程的统计态动力学(SSD)形式确定的湍流维持机制也适用于埃克曼层。通过将之前用于研究壁界剪切流中卷形成所用的基于SSD的稳定性分析方法扩展到埃克曼层,我们表明在壁界湍流中已知的雷诺应力驱动不稳定性机制与曲率不稳定性共同作用,产生并维持埃克曼层中的RSS。这些结果增强了对湍流埃克曼层中RSS形成和演变的机理理解,并提供了地物理埃克曼层湍流与工程尺度剪切流湍流之间的重要联系。

英文摘要:

Streamwise roll and streak structures (RSS) are prominent features observed in both atmospheric and oceanic planetary boundary layers (PBL) as well as in laboratory scale Wall bounded shear flows. Despite their structural similarity across these systems, the mechanisms responsible for forming and sustaining the RSS remain debated. This study demonstrates that the same turbulence sustaining mechanism previously identified in Wall bounded shear flows using the Statistical State Dynamics (SSD) formulation of the Navier Stokes equations (Farrell & Ioannou 2012; Farrell et al. 2017) also operates in the Ekman layer. By extending the SSD based stability analysis methods previously used for studying roll formation in wall bounded shear flows to the Ekman layer, we show that the well known Reynolds stress driven instability mechanism in wall-bounded turbulence acts together with inflectional instability to produce and sustain RSS in the Ekman layer. These results enhance the mechanistic understanding of RSS formation and evolution in the turbulent Ekman layer and provide a fundamental link between geophysical Ekman-layer turbulence and turbulence in engineering-scale shear flows.

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