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Wall-bounded flow over a realistically rough superhydrophobic surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2019

Karim Alamé Open the ORCID record for Karim Alamé [Opens in a new window]  and
Krishnan Mahesh Open the ORCID record for Krishnan Mahesh [Opens in a new window]
Karim Alamé
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Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Krishnan Mahesh*
Affiliation:
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: kmahesh@umn.edu
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Abstract

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is performed for two wall-bounded flow configurations: laminar Couette flow at $Re=740$ and turbulent channel flow at $Re_{\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}}=180$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$ is the shear stress at the wall. The top wall is smooth and the bottom wall is a realistically rough superhydrophobic surface (SHS), generated from a three-dimensional surface profile measurement. The air–water interface, which is assumed to be flat, is simulated using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) approach. The two flow cases are studied with varying interface heights $h$ to understand its effect on slip and drag reduction ($DR$). For the laminar Couette flow case, the presence of the surface roughness is felt up to $40\,\%$ of the channel height in the wall-normal direction. Nonlinear dependence of $DR$ on $h$ is observed with three distinct regions. A nonlinear curve fit is obtained for gas fraction $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}_{g}$ as a function of $h$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}_{g}$ determines the amount of slip area exposed to the flow. A power law fit is obtained from the data for the effective slip length as a function of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D719}_{g}$ and is compared to those derived for structured geometry. For the turbulent channel flow, statistics of the flow field are compared to that of a smooth wall to understand the effects of roughness and $h$. Four cases are simulated ranging from fully wetted to fully covered and two intermediate regions in between. Scaling laws for slip length, slip velocity, roughness function and $DR$ are obtained for different penetration depths and are compared to past work for structured geometry. $DR$ is shown to depend on a competing effect between slip velocity and turbulent losses due to the Reynolds shear stress contribution. Presence of trapped air in the cavities significantly alters near-wall flow physics where we examine near-wall structures and propose a physical mechanism for their behaviour. The fully wetted roughness increases the peak value of turbulent intensities, whereas the presence of the interface suppresses them. The pressure fluctuations have competing contributions between turbulent pressure fluctuations and stagnation due to asperities, the near-wall structure is altered and breaks down with increasing slip. Overall, there exists a competing effect between the interface and the asperities, the interface suppresses turbulence whereas the asperities enhance them. The present work demonstrates DNS over a realistic multiphase SHS for the first time, to the best of our knowledge.

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Flow Control: Drag reduction Multiphase and Particle-laden Flows: Multiphase flow Turbulent Flows: Turbulence simulation
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 873 , 25 August 2019 , pp. 977 - 1019
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