Sixth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena
DOI: 10.1615/TSFP6
2D/3C MODEL OF LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES IN TURBULENT PLANE COUETTE FLOW
pages 283-288
DOI: 10.1615/TSFP6.450
ABSTRAKT
A slreamwise constant projection of the Navier Stokes equations forced by small-amplitude Gaussian noise is simulated. It is found that this model captures salient features of fully developed turbulent plane Couette flow. In particular, the nonlinearity in the model captures the mathematical mechanism that results in the characteristic shape of the turbulent velocity profile. Further, using Taylor's hypothesis the model also generates large scale streaky structures, that closely resemble large scale features that have been observed in DNS and experiments.