Time irreversibility in a transitional boundary layer
Miriana Galante
Time irreversibility in a transitional boundary layer.
Rel. Luca Ridolfi, Stefania Scarsoglio. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Physics Of Complex Systems, 2025
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Abstract
Laminar to turbulent flow transition is a complex phenomenon that is currently widely investigated in the field of fluid dynamics. In particular, the study of time irreversibility - intended as statistical asymmetry of signals under time reversal - of a transitional boundary layer can offer new perspectives in the analysis of turbulence and non-stationary processes. Therefore, the connection between the turbulent structure of the boundary layer and the irreversibility of the velocity signals is an important subject of research. This thesis proposes a quantitative and point-to-point analysis of the time irreversibility of a transitional boundary layer and makes use of numerical data from the John Hopkins Turbulence Database (JHTDB), which simulate an incompressible flow on a flat plane subject to a bypass transition induced by isotropic turbulence at the inlet.
Time series of the velocity components u, v and w are transformed into graphs using different Visibility Graph methods, which are able to represent and study the geometric structure of signals using the tools of graph theory
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