Spatial evolution of wall-imposed disturbance in pipe flow Cas van Doorne,1 Jerry Westerweel,1 Frans Nieuwstadt (†), Tobias Schneider2 & Bruno Eckhardt2 1Laboratory for Aero & Hydrodynamics, Delft University of Technology The Netherlands 2Fachbereich Physik, University of Marburg, Germany
Motivation Transition in pipe flow has remained an unresolved problem (Reynolds 1883) Experimental validation of the transition scenario (e.g., DNS by Ma Bing et al. 1999) What is the nature of the boundary between laminar and turbulent flow? (Edge of Chaos, Skufka et al. 2006) Turbulence control?
Laminar disturbance mechanism
Stereo PIV: optical configuration
Stereo PIV
The edge of chaos
Numerical edge trajectory Skufka, Yorke, Eckhardt, PRL 96 (2006) 174101
Edge state structure: off-center jet Experiment Numerical simulation Re = 3000 Re = 2875
LIF visualization
z / D = 3.0
z / D = 5.0
z / D = 8.1
z / D = 11.3
z / D = 14.4
Fully developed turbulence
Reconstructed vorticity
Spectral mode decomposition Re = 3000, 0.25 Hz DNS S-PIV
Conclusions Flow transition induced by laminar disturbance mechanism High-precision S-PIV set-up for measuring cross-flow Disturbance mimics the edge of chaos flow structure Quantitative measurement of development of streaks into packets of hairpin vortices Next: add second disturbance mechanism to achieve flow control in experimental configuration