Turbulence statistics and structures of drag-reducing turbulent boundary layer in homogeneous aqueous surfactant solutions

In our earlier work [Itoh et al., Phys. Fluids 17, 075107 (2005)], the additional maximum of the streamwise turbulence intensity near the center of the drag-reducing turbulent boundary layer was found in the homogeneous dilute aqueous surfactant solution which was a mixture of cetyltrimethyl ammonium chloride with sodium salicylate as counterion. In this work, we systematically investigated the influence of the drag-reducing surfactant on the velocity fields of the turbulent boundary layer at various Reynolds numbers Reθ from 301 to 1437 and the drag reduction ratio DR from 8% to 74% under different streamwise locations and concentration and temperature of solutions using a two-component laser-Doppler velocimetry (LDV) system. It was revealed that all data on DR versus the wall-shear rate obtained here were collapsed on a single curve. We verified the existence of the additional maximum of the streamwise turbulence intensity near the center of the boundary layer which appeared at relatively large drag red...

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