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Test of the universality class for the transition to turbulence in pipe flow

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K14594
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Fluid engineering
Research InstitutionOkinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

Principal Investigator

Cerbus Rory  沖縄科学技術大学院大学, 流体力学ユニット, 研究員 (10795347)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywords乱流遷移 / パイプ流 / 非平衡相転移 / 臨界指数 / 摩擦
Outline of Final Research Achievements

When pipe flow transitions from the laminar to the turbulent state, packets of eddying flow called "puffs" and "slugs" invade the laminar flow. Although turbulence has long been understood to be different from this transitional regime, how these different puffs and slugs can act as mediators of the transition has not been investigated. In our research we showed in detail that puffs and slugs have the same quantitative structure as fully developed turbulence by looking at diagnostics such as friction and the universality of velocity fluctuation statistics. This result furnishes the necessary link between turbulence and its transition.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The results obtained by our research efforts allow researchers to use the multitude of tools from high Reynolds number turbulence to study the transition. This is of practical use as well, since engineers now have the information necessary to predict energy costs for transitioning pipelines.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 9 results)

  • [Journal Article] Small-scale universality in the spectral structure of transitional pipe flows2020

    • Author(s)
      Cerbus Rory T.、Liu Chien-chia、Gioia Gustavo、Chakraborty Pinaki
    • Journal Title

      Science Advances

      Volume: 6 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-6

    • DOI

      10.1126/sciadv.aaw6256

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The turbulent flow in a slug: a re-examination2019

    • Author(s)
      Cerbus R. T.、Sakakibara J.、Gioia G.、Chakraborty P.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Fluid Mechanics

      Volume: 883 Pages: 1-17

    • DOI

      10.1017/jfm.2019.863

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Laws of Resistance in Transitional Pipe Flows2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus, Chien-chia Liu, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty
    • Journal Title

      Physical Review Letters

      Volume: 120 Issue: 5 Pages: 054502-054502

    • DOI

      10.1103/physrevlett.120.054502

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Friction and fluctuations in transitional pipe flow2019

    • Author(s)
      Cerbus, Rory
    • Organizer
      Fluid Mechanics Research Group at the University of Melbourne, Australia
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Friction and fluctuations in transitional pipe flow2019

    • Author(s)
      Cerbus, Rory
    • Organizer
      Physics Department at the Australian National University, Australia
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Transition to Turbulence in Short Pipes2019

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Japan Physical Society Spring Meeting 2019
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The turbulent flow in a slug2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The turbulent flow in a slug2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The turbulent flow in a slug2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Slugs in transitional pipe flows2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Kyoto Univ. RIMS Conf. on Turbulence and Transition
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Laws of Resistance in Transitional Pipe Flows2018

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      ICMAS 2018, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Turbulence in Reynolds's Flashes2017

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Bethel University Department of Physics, Minnesota, USA
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Energy Cascade in Transitional Pipe Flows2017

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Energy Cascade in Transitional Pipe Flows2017

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      Academica Sinica, Taiwan
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Energy Cascade in Transitional Pipe Flows2017

    • Author(s)
      Rory T. Cerbus
    • Organizer
      National Central University, Taiwan
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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