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Article
A new scaling for the streamwise turbulence intensity in wall-bounded turbulent flows and what it tells us about the "outer" peak
AbstractOne recent focus of experimental studies of turbulence in high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows has been the scaling of the root mean square of the fluctuating streamwise velocity, but progress has largely been impaired by spatial resolution effects of hot-wire sensors. For the near-wall peak recent results seem to have clarified the controversy, however, one of the remaining issues in this respect is the emergence of a second (so called outer) peak at high Reynolds numbers. The present Letter introduces a new scaling of the local turbulence intensity profile, based on the diagnostic plot by Alfredsson & Örlü [Eur. J. Fluid Mech. B/Fluids, 42, 403 (2010)], which predicts the location and amplitude of the `outer' peak, and suggests its presence as a question of sufficiently large scale separation.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3581074
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