Disturbance growth on a NACA0008 wing subjected to free stream turbulence

Alarcón, José FaúndezKTH,Strömningsmekanik och Teknisk Akustik,Linné Flow Center, FLOW (author)

QC 20220715
The stability of an incompressible boundary layer flow over a wing in the presence of free stream turbulence (FST) has been investigated by means of direct numerical simulations and compared with the linearised boundary layer equations. Four different. FST conditions have been considered, which are characterised by their turbulence intensity levels and length scales. In all cases the perturbed flow develops into elongated disturbances of high and low streamwise velocity inside the boundary layer, where their spacing has been found to be strongly dependent on the scales of the incoming free stream vorticity. The breakdown of these streaks into turbulent spots from local secondary instabilities is also observed, presenting the same development as the ones reported in flat plate experiments. The disturbance growth, characterised by its root mean squares value, is found to depend not only on the turbulence level, but also on the FST length scales. Particularly, higher disturbance growth is observed for our cases with larger length scales. This behaviour is attributed to the preferred wavenumbers that can exhibit maximum transient growth. We study this boundary layer preference by projection of the flow fields at the leading edge onto optimal disturbances. Our results demonstrate that optimal disturbance growth is the main cause of growth of disturbances on the wing boundary layer.

Morra, PierluigiKTH,Linné Flow Center, FLOW,Teknisk mekanik(Swepub:kth)u11hmzyh (author)
Hanifi, Ardeshir,Docent,1963-KTH,Linné Flow Center, FLOW,Strömningsmekanik och Teknisk Akustik(Swepub:kth)u1t125t9 (author)
Henningson, Dan S.KTH,Linné Flow Center, FLOW,Strömningsmekanik och Teknisk Akustik(Swepub:kth)u1xtilpr (author)
KTHStrömningsmekanik och Teknisk Akustik (creator_code:org_t)

In:Journal of Fluid Mechanics: Cambridge University Press (CUP)9440022-11201469-7645

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