Characterization of Communicating Turbulent Grazing Flows Through a Resolved Porous Medium
摘要
Porous media are a promising technology to reduce turbulent boundary layer trailing edge noise. However, the fact that the porous material is grazed by turbulent flow on both sides makes its characterization not trivial. This paper describes the modifications resulting from the interaction between the grazing flows through the porous medium, defined as communication. To this end, lattice-Boltzmann simulations of two communicating turbulent channel flows separated by a fully resolved porous medium are carried out. The porous medium is realized as a 75% porous triply periodic minimal surface of type Schwarz’ P. Results are compared against the case with porous medium backed by a solid wall and the smooth wall channel flow. When communication between the two channel flows is allowed, spanwise coherent structures appear that are assimilated to a shear instability at a non-dimensional frequency of