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Mapping the Turn: An Eulerian Binormal-Axis Diagnostic for Recirculating 3D Flows
John Marshall Cooper, Wen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18439 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18439 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18439
arXiv:2605.18439v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) recirculating flows are often interpreted qualitatively from selected streamline visualizations. In separated flows, such recirculating motion is central to the drag modulation, but the local orientation of recirculation remains difficult to quantify in a field-based form. This work introduces an Eulerian binormal-axis diagnostic that locally evaluates the orientation of streamline turning at each point in the velocity field, yielding a spatially resolved field of the recirculating direction. Motivated by the Frenet-Serret binormal direction of a curved streamline, the diagnostic uses the velocity vector and its convective acceleration to extract the local streamline-turning axis without requiring explicit streamline integration. The resulting direction is encoded with barycentric RGB weights to visualize streamwise, spanwise, and wall-normal turning axis contributions. The diagnostic is first applied to Hill's spherical vortex, which provides a controlled analytic example of 3D recirculating motion for interpreting the binormal-axis direction and the associated barycentric RGB encoding. It is then applied to the mean field of a pressure-gradient-induced 3D separation bubble. The resulting visualizations show that the diagnostic reveals orientation changes that are not apparent from streamline visualization. The proposed diagnostic therefore converts qualitative streamline impressions into a spatially resolved measure of local streamline-turning orientation, providing a quantitative complement to conventional 3D flow visualization.
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