Relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow
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| author | Khan, Basheer A. Arogeti, Shai Shoshani, Oriel Yakhot, Alexander |
| author_facet | Khan, Basheer A. Arogeti, Shai Shoshani, Oriel Yakhot, Alexander |
| contents | This study examines the relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow using highly resolved direct numerical simulations at Reynolds numbers of 1880, 1900, and 1920. The exponential decay of the total energy of streamwise velocity fluctuations and the weak dependence of the decay rate on the Reynolds number were verified. In the cross-section of the laminar-turbulent interface at the trailing edge of the puff, an analysis of the spatio-temporal evolution of the streamline patterns reveals a complex topology with saddle-node pairs. In this case, the saddle and the node move toward each other during relaminarization until they collide and vanish. By tracing the vanishing saddle-node pairs over time, we discovered that the distance between the saddle and the node scales as a square root function of time, a generic characteristic of a time-evolving saddle-node bifurcation. |
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| spellingShingle | Relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow Khan, Basheer A. Arogeti, Shai Shoshani, Oriel Yakhot, Alexander Fluid Dynamics This study examines the relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow using highly resolved direct numerical simulations at Reynolds numbers of 1880, 1900, and 1920. The exponential decay of the total energy of streamwise velocity fluctuations and the weak dependence of the decay rate on the Reynolds number were verified. In the cross-section of the laminar-turbulent interface at the trailing edge of the puff, an analysis of the spatio-temporal evolution of the streamline patterns reveals a complex topology with saddle-node pairs. In this case, the saddle and the node move toward each other during relaminarization until they collide and vanish. By tracing the vanishing saddle-node pairs over time, we discovered that the distance between the saddle and the node scales as a square root function of time, a generic characteristic of a time-evolving saddle-node bifurcation. |
| title | Relaminarization of turbulent puffs in pipe flow |
| topic | Fluid Dynamics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12663 |