IN SUBGRID-SCALE MODELING.pdf

July 19, 1999 17:14 Proceedings of FEDSM’99 1999 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting July 18-23, 1999, San Francisco, CA, USA FEDSM99-7349 HOT-WIRE ARRAY FOR TURBULENCE RESEARCH IN SUBGRID-SCALE MODELING Stefano Cerutti and Charles Meneveau  Department of Mechanical Engineering The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 ABSTRACT Modeling of turbulence for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) must be based on sound understanding of the relationships be- tween large and small scales. In order to study flows with a large range of active length-scales, high Reynolds number experimen- tal data can be used. Thermal anemometry provides the possibil- ity of acquiring long records of turbulence data, which are nec- essary for evaluating statistically converged high-order moments or conditional averages. However, standard hot-wire probes pro- vide, using Taylor’s hypothesis, linear sections through the three- dimensional fields only. Thus, the separation between the small and large scales required for the analysis can only be made by one-dimensional filtering. For LES, three or two dimensional fil- tering is more directly relevant. In this paper, a new hot-wire sensor consisting of an array of 4 sub-miniature X-wires that al- lows an approximation to two-dimensional filtering of the ve- locity field is described. To analyze the data, we use Taylor’s hypothesis to perform stream-wise filtering, while cross-stream averaging over the probes provides the transverse filtering. The approximation of a box filter using only a few points in the cross- stream direction causes aliasing errors. We present a spectral analysis showing that resulting second-order statistics of filtered velocity gradients and average sub-grid stresses are acceptably small. Initial results from measurements in the turbulent cylinder wake are presented. We compare unfiltered spectra with spectra of 2-D and 1-D filtered velocity components. Also, we present probability density functions of filtered