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• 1Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 5
Proceeding of The International Symposium on Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer - Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 25-29, 2006

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Experimental study of the subsonic flat plate turbulent boundary layer with forced thermal convection

S. Grosse
Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnerstr. 5-7, D-52062, Germany

W. Schroder
Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnerstr. 5-7, D-52062, Germany

M. Klaas
Institute of Aerodynamics, RWTH Aachen University, Wüllnerstr. 5-7, D-52062, Germany

ABSTRACT

A subsonic zero-pressure gradient uniformly-heated turbulent boundary layer at a Reynolds number in the range of 3560 ≤ Re_θ ≤ 5360 was investigated. Particle-image velocimetry measurements were carried out at selected positions in the streamwise direction for several wind-tunnel speeds and for different wall temperatures to show the convection effects to expand the boundary-layer thickness and to enlarge the turbulence intensities in the log-law and wake region. The inclination of large-scale ramp-like vortex packets increases to higher characteristic angles, i.e., the mean angles are enlarged by approx. 10°. Hairpin-like vortex structures originating from the near-wall region seem to undergo higher climbing rates in the wall-normal direction causing the above mentioned significant changes in the mean velocity profiles, the boundary-layer thickness, and the strongly increased distributions of turbulence intensities in the wake region of the boundary layer. The two-point correlation distribution of the streamwise velocity fluctuations R_uu is increased for wall distances y/δ = 0.1 to y/δ = 0.75 indicating the existence of coherent structures in higher regions of the boundary layer.