Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to Reτ=590

Abstract

Numerical simulations of fully developed turbulent channel flow at three Reynolds numbers up to ${\mathrm{Re}}_{\tau }\text{=590}$ are reported. It is noted that the higher Reynolds number simulations exhibit fewer low Reynolds number effects than previous simulations at ${\mathrm{Re}}_{\tau }\text{=180.}$ A comprehensive set of statistics gathered from the simulations is available on the web at http://www.tam.uiuc.edu/Faculty/Moser/channel.