Transient growth in a flat plate boundary layer under a stream with uniform shear

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Hauptverfasser: Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Sunder, Mandal, Alakesh Chandra
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author Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Sunder
Mandal, Alakesh Chandra
author_facet Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Sunder
Mandal, Alakesh Chandra
contents One of the simplest problems involving external vorticity in boundary layer flows is the flow over a semi-infinite plate under a stream of uniform shear. We study the transient growth phenomenon in this flow to investigate the role of freestream shear on energy amplification, and analyse the differences with the Blasius flow. The initial optimal disturbance which triggers the maximum growth is found to be streamwise vortices, as in other shear flows. Compared to the Blasius boundary layer, higher optimum energy and larger spanwise wavelength of streamwise vortices have been observed. We provide scaling laws for the maximum optimal amplification, which is found to increase exponentially with the freestream shear gradient.
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spellingShingle Transient growth in a flat plate boundary layer under a stream with uniform shear
Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Sunder
Mandal, Alakesh Chandra
Fluid Dynamics
One of the simplest problems involving external vorticity in boundary layer flows is the flow over a semi-infinite plate under a stream of uniform shear. We study the transient growth phenomenon in this flow to investigate the role of freestream shear on energy amplification, and analyse the differences with the Blasius flow. The initial optimal disturbance which triggers the maximum growth is found to be streamwise vortices, as in other shear flows. Compared to the Blasius boundary layer, higher optimum energy and larger spanwise wavelength of streamwise vortices have been observed. We provide scaling laws for the maximum optimal amplification, which is found to increase exponentially with the freestream shear gradient.
title Transient growth in a flat plate boundary layer under a stream with uniform shear
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08696