Print Email Facebook Twitter Universal characterization of wall turbulence for fluids with strong property variations Title Universal characterization of wall turbulence for fluids with strong property variations Author Patel, A. (TU Delft Energy Technology) Contributor Boersma, B.J. (promotor) Pecnik, Rene (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2017-06-19 Abstract Wall-bounded turbulence involving mixing of scalars, such as temperature or concentration fields, play an important role in many engineering applications. In applications with large temperature or concentration differences, the variation of scalar dependent thermos physical properties can be strong. In such cases the strong coupling between energy and momentum alters the conventional behavior of turbulence. This alteration results in peculiar momentum and heat transfer characteristics, for which conventional scaling laws for constant property flows fail and cannot be applied. The aim of this work is to characterize wall bounded turbulence for fluids that have large near-wall gradients in thermos physical properties. The focus is on the variable inertia effects at the low-Mach number limit without the influence of buoyancy. Subject Turbulent boundary layerDirect numerical simulationVariable density effectsScalar dependent propertiesTurbulence modeling To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:f2d98b1a-59f4-406d-9e0a-2dc011159e6b ISBN 978-94-6233-661-2 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2017 A. Patel Files PDF Patel_dissertation.pdf 12.38 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f2d98b1a-59f4-406d-9e0a-2dc011159e6b/datastream/OBJ/view