In this investigation, Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of turbulent spatially-developing boundary layers (SDBL) with prescribed Very Strong Favorable Pressure Gradients (VSFPG) are performed by means of the Dynamic Multi-scale Approach (DMA) developed by Araya et al. Although the prescription of an external VSFPG significantly reduces turbulence production, the flow never becomes completely laminar due to the finite value of the stream-wise Reynolds normal stress, and thus the flow is laminarescent. It has been observed that the flow becomes more anisotropic in the relaminarizing region. Furthermore, the total shear stresses can be represented as a linear function of the favorable pressure gradient in the near wall region.
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