14 March 2024

Onset of large-scale convection in turbulent shear flows

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Séminaire de Carlo CUSSO

Large-scale coherent rolls are observed frequently in unstably stratified turbulent wall-bounded flows where they strongly influence the turbulent transport and the mean flow properties. I will address the question of their genesis by means of a linear stability analysis of the turbulent mean flow where a model of turbulent Reynolds stresses is embedded in the linear stability operator. I will show that the onset of large-scale convection is associated to the linear instability of the mean flow to large-scale streamwise-uniform coherent rolls consistently with the results of recent direct numerical simulations performed in the same setting. I will also discuss the importance of including a model of the Reynolds stresses in the linear operator both in this analysis in resolvent analyses of turbulent shear flows.

14 March 2024, 11h0012h00
Site du Futuroscope, Chasseneuil du Poitou, à 11h00 en salle de comm - sp2mi-h1

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