Spanwise structure and scale growth in turbulent boundary layers

By Christopher D. Tomkins, Ronald J. Adrian. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003

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Linear energy amplification in turbulent channels (2006, background): “…model is able to reproduce the self-similar spreading of the velocity structures in the overlap region, which has been represented in figures 4(a) and 4(b) by the dashed lines λz ∼ y, and which has been documented by Nakagawa & Nezu (1981), del Álamo & Jiménez (2003) and Tomkins & Adrian (2003).”
Turbulence Structure in Rough and Smooth Wall Boundary Layers (2006, methodology): “Tomkins & Adrian (2003) showed several examples of low-speed regions in the streamwise– spanwise plane flanked by lines of oppositely signed swirl.”
Turbulence structure in a boundary layer with two-dimensional roughness (2009, methodology): “The same averaging techniques were used by Tomkins & Adrian (2003) and Ganapathisubramani et al. (2005).”
Low-Frequency Unsteadiness of Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions (2014, methodology): “Their 3D technique enabled them to observe that hairpin-type vortical structures are associated with low-momentum regions, consistent with the hairpin-packet model proposed by Kim & Adrian (1999), Adrian et al. (2000), and Tomkins & Adrian (2003).”
Investigation of large-scale coherence in a turbulent boundary layer using two-point correlations (2005, methodology): “found in previous hot-wire experiments by Tritton (1967). One other point worth observing is the sign change of the Ruw correlation in the spanwise direction.”
The three-dimensional structure of momentum transfer in turbulent channels (2011, background): “On the other hand, an explanation in terms of longitudinally growing vortex packets may be equally valid (Tomkins & Adrian 2003), and it would be difficult to distinguish between the two models, or others, until time-resolved evolutions are analysed.”
Optimal transient growth and very large–scale structures in turbulent boundary layers (2008, methodology): “In typical experiments, such as those of Tomkins & Adrian (2003), the structures observed have streamwise lengths of the order of λx ≈ 2–2.5δ corresponding to α ≈ 14–11.”
Large-scale influences in near-wall turbulence (2007, neutral): “(2003), Tomkins & Adrian (2003) and Hambleton et al .”
Self-similar vortex clusters in the turbulent logarithmic region (2006, methodology): “The agreement is especially good for the widths of Ganapathisubramani et al. (2003) and of Tomkins & Adrian (2003), 342 J. C. del Álamo, J. Jiménez, P. Zandonade and R. D. Moser which were measured directly on instantaneous and conditionally averaged hairpin packet signatures.”
Amplification of coherent streaks in the turbulent Couette flow: an input–output analysis at low Reynolds number (2010, background): “At high Reynolds numbers, these large-scale structures dominate the streamwise turbulent kinetic energy throughout the logarithmic region (Tomkins & Adrian 2003, 2005), and modulate the cycles of near-wall structures (Hutchins & Marusic 2007b).”
Towards Reconciling the Large-Scale Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers in the Atmosphere and Laboratory (2012, methodology): “…are the occurrence of spanwise vortices in the streamwise/wall-normal plane representing the hairpin heads (e.g. Adrian et al. 2000b), and also counter-rotating vortex pairs in the streamwise/spanwise plane, representing the hairpin legs (Ganapathisubramani et al. 2003; Tomkins and Adrian 2003).”
Uniform momentum zones in turbulent boundary layers (2014, background): “Tomkins & Adrian (2003) performed a complementary set of experiments in the same turbulent boundary layer as Adrian et al. (2000) but in a streamwise–spanwise plane from the buffer layer to the top of the logarithmic region.”
High–Reynolds Number Wall Turbulence (2011, background): “A characteristic feature of LSMs is that the hairpin vortices within the packet align in the streamwise direction and induce regions of low-streamwise momentum between their legs (Brown & Thomas 1977, Adrian et al. 2000, Ganapathisubramani et al. 2003, Tomkins & Adrian 2003, Hutchins et al. 2005).”
Spatial structure of a turbulent boundary layer with irregular surface roughness (2010, methodology): “…the streamwise-elongated character of these correlations has been previously tied to the streamwise alignment of vortices into larger-scale packets (Tomkins & Adrian 2003; Christensen & Wu 2005), this reduction in streamwise extent is indicative of a commensurate reduction in the characteristic…”