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Published November 2021 | Published
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Error estimation of a homogenized streamwise periodic boundary layer

Abstract

An analysis was conducted of the transpiration velocity of the streamwise periodic simulation of the turbulent flat plate boundary layer. As an often imposed quantity in numerical simulation, the transpiration velocity plays an important role in the shape of the wall-normal profile near the outer layer. Unlike other simulation frameworks which impose the transpiration velocity, the recently proposed framework [Ruan and Blanquart, Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 024602 (2021)] relies on a single-scale rescaling of the wall-normal coordinate to perform streamwise periodic boundary layer simulations. The current manuscript highlights that any error in the transpiration velocity from these simulations is due to a difference in inner and outer layer growth rates. A new multiscale framework to compensate for these differing growth rates is proposed and verified but ultimately has negligible impact on the mean profiles and turbulent intensities. These remain in excellent agreement with previously published values. It is shown that any error in the mean continuity equation expresses itself primarily as an error in transpiration velocity, which decreases with Reynolds number. Overall, the error in the transpiration velocity can be used to quantify the error in single-scale, streamwise periodic simulations.

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© 2021 American Physical Society. (Received 5 March 2021; accepted 5 October 2021; published 29 November 2021)

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