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The heat transfer problem in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer

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The problem of heat transfer in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer has been investigated. The resonant triad in the theory of hydrodynamic stability was used to obtain the velocity field induced by the coherent structures in the wall region of the turbulent boundary layer, while the small scale turbulence was represented by a simple model. By such a new approach of modeling, the 3-D temperature field is calculated, the mean temperature profile in the wall region and the Nusselt number characterizing the heat flux, which was found to be in good agreement with the experimental observations are obtained. The instantaneous temperature field had streaky structures, thus offering a mechanism for their generation found in numerical simulations.

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  1. Zheng Ma

    Present address: Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, 200072, Shanghai, China

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  1. Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, China

    Heng Zhou, Zheng Ma & Zhe Zhang

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 19132011).

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Zhou, H., Ma, Z. & Zhang, Z. The heat transfer problem in the wall region of a turbulent boundary layer. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 41, 1216–1222 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02871984

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