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The dynamical coupling between turbulent transport and parallel flows has been investigated in the plasma boundary region of the Joint European Torus tokamak. Experimental results show that there is a dynamical relationship between transport and parallel flows. As the size of transport events increases, parallel flows also increase. These results show that turbulent transport can drive parallel...

Direct numerical simulation of turbulent homogeneous shear ow is performed in order to clarify compressibility e ects on the turbulence growth in the ow. The two Mach numbers relevant to homogeneous shear ow are the turbulent Mach number Mt and the gradient Mach number Mg . Two series of simulations are performed where the initial values of Mg and Mt are increased separately. The growth rate of...

The interaction between a turbulent free-stream and a turbulent boundary layer is investigated through particle image velocimetry measurements. An ‘interaction layer’ located between 0.12 ≤ y/δ ≤ 0.19, at the end of the log layer, is identified whereby the kinetic energy in this layer describes the flow above it. Conditional averages about the interaction layer indicate that it is home to peaks...

The behaviour of the steady, horizontally homogeneous, neutral, barotropic planetary boundary layer (PBL) has recently been examined by Garratt and Hess. In Garratt and Hess (2002) modelled profiles of the mean wind, the geostrophic departure and turbulent stress components were compared with observations; in Hess and Garratt (2002 a,b) predicted integral measures, such as the geostrophic drag ...

A parallel embedded boundary approach for large-eddy simulations of turbulent flows with complex geometries and dynamically moving boundaries on fixed orthogonal grids is presented. The underlying solver is based on a second-order fractional step method on a staggered grid. The boundary conditions on an arbitrary immersed interface are satisfied via second-order local reconstructions. The paral...

Large-scale unsteadiness lies at the heart of many of the design challenges associated with flight at high Mach numbers. Phenomena such as sound generation, fatigue loading, mixing, and separation are driven by turbulent motion on scales larger than the boundary layer thickness and longer than the boundary layer time scale /Ue,. This talk will focus on large-scale unsteadiness in attached a...

The study of flow and heat transfer over rotating circular disks is of great practical importance in understanding the cooling of rotatory machinery such as turbines, electric motors and design and manufacturing of computer disk drives. This paper presents an analysis of the flow and heat transfer over a heated infinite permeable rough disk. Boundary-layer approximation reduces the elliptic Nav...

A new turbulence model suited for calculating the turbulent Prandtl number as part of the solution is presented. The model is based on a set of two equations: one governing the variance of the enthalpy and the other governing its dissipation rate. These equations were derived from the exact energy equation and thus take into consideration compressibility and dissipation terms. The model is used...