Abstract
This paper studied nonisothermal plane channel flows using the method of thermal large-eddy simulations (TLES). Several temperature ratios (TR =TH /TC ) were investigated, where TC and TH are the temperatures of the cold and hot sides, respectively. Each TR case is further considered for two wall Reynolds numbers (Re τm ), 180 and 395, where the wall Reynolds number was defined as the average of the local wall Reynolds number values obtained for the cold and hot sides, Re τC and Re τH . For a given wall Reynolds number Re τm , it was demonstrated that the increased temperature ratio directly led to an enhanced disparity between the local wall Reynolds numbers of the cold and hot sides. Essentially, the wall Reynolds number for the cold side (Re τC ) is increased, but its companion value for the hot side (Re τH ) is decreased. In the case of large temperature ratio, the asymmetry of the mean velocity and temperature profiles is also increased. The major findings are that for high-temperature ratios, the flow on the hot side could relaminarize, as indicated by the parabolicity of the axial flow profile on the hot side; however, this process can be overcome if the flow has a greater turbulent intensity, as illustrated for the higher-Reynolds-number case studied in the paper. Finally, the impact of the temperature gradient on the turbulent fluctuations is investigated by controlling the influence of the Reynolds number. Four nonisothermal energy spectra on the cold and the hot side are compared and contrasted with eight isothermal flows. Here, the isothermal flows were chosen so that their Reynolds numbers have the same values as those Re τC and Re τH previously evaluated from the nonisothermal flows. The isothermal spectra reproduced the classical Kolmogorov spectra when the Reynolds numbers were sufficiently high. As a result, any observed deviation of the spectra index of the nonisothermal spectra from that of the isothermal one is a direct consequence of the temperature gradient.
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