Conference on Turbulence and Interactions TI2006, May 29 - June 2, 2006, Porquerolles, France Turbulence modification by periodically modulated scale-dependent forcing A. K. Kuczaj†,?, B. J. Geurts†,‡, D. Lohse?, W. van de Water‡ †Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, J.M. Burgers Center, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands ‡Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ?Physics of Fluids, J.M. Burgers Center, Department of Applied Physics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, ?E-mail: ABSTRACT The response of turbulent flow to time-modulated forcing is studied by direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations. The forcing is modulated via periodic energy input variations at a frequency ?. Such forcing of the large-scales is shown to yield a response maximum at frequencies in the range of the inverse of the large-eddy turnover time. Time-modulated broad-band forcing is also studied in which a wide spectrum of length-scales is forced simultaneously. If smaller length-scales are explicitly agitated by the forcing, the response maximum is found to occur at higher frequencies and to become less pronounced.
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