PIV analysis of skin friction and coherent structures in turbulent drag reduction regimes

In the present work, planar and tomographic PIV are used to investigate how the organisation of wall turbulence is altered when actuators are operated with the objective of reducing the skin friction drag. When the wall is mechanically oscillated in the spanwise direction, high-resolution planar PIV enable the direct measurement of wall shear...

Large-scale flow organization of wall-bounded turbulence over flush-mounted rotating discs

Rotating discs, flush-mounted within the wall beneath a turbulent boundary layer, affect the large-scale flow dynamics. An organized array of rotating discs is a surrogate for the transverse-oscillating wall concept that is known to reduce turbulent friction drag, since the convecting flow encounters a travelling wave, particularly in the...