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Evolution of hairpin vortices in a shear flow

Author
Walker, J. D. A.
Published
Jul 1, 1988.
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Additional Creators
Hon, T.-L.
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Summary
Recent experimental studies suggest that the hairpin vortex plays an important (and perhaps dominant) role in the dynamics of turbulent flows near walls. In this study a numerical procedure is developed to allow the accurate computation of the trajectory of a 3-D vortex having a small core radius. For hairpin vortices which are convected in a shear flow above a wall, the calculated results show that a 2-D vortex containing a small 3-D disturbance distorts into a complex shape with subsidiary hairpin vortices forming outboard of the original hairpin vortex. As the vortex moves above the wall, it induces unsteady motion in the viscous flow near the wall: numerical solutions suggest that the boundary-layer flow near the wall will ultimately erupt in response to the motion of the hairpin vortex and in the process a secondary hairpin vortex will be created. The computer results agree with recent experimental investigations.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19880017501.
Accession ID: 88N26885.
NAS 1.15:100858.
ICOMP-88-9.
NASA-TM-100858.
E-4062.
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