Fluid Dynamics
This paper investigates and characterizes the row dependent thermal performance of an 8 row finned tube heat exchanger (HEX) with an offset tube arrangement and continuous flat fins. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations reveal…
Achieving clean combustion systems is crucial in terms of solving environmental impacts, decarbonization needs and sustainability matters. Traditional combustion modeling techniques via computational fluid dynamics with accurate chemical…
We focus on the intermittent bistable stall dynamics of an airfoil under varying angle of attack. We propose a one-dimensional Langevin equation where the stochastic forcing depends on the state of the system -- high-lift attached flow or…
The fact that physical conservation laws can be derived from symmetry properties of space and time, as shown by Emily N\"other, has been utilized in predicting the development of the round turbulent jet from the jet exit to the far field.…
In this paper, Chandrasekhar's deductive theory of turbulence is extended to the case of hydrodynamics and hydromagnetics, with higher order fluid moments. We include the contributions from correlation tensors at two different points of…
The present study provides a systematic derivation of a phase-field version of the momentum, mass and heat transport equations, while accounting for chemical reactions in the fluid phase. To achieve this goal, the volume averaging technique…
We put forward a novel formulation of the vortex gas model of turbulent circulation statistics to address the challenging case of nonplanar circulation contours. Relying upon a field-theoretical description, statistical moments of the…
We present a novel approach to optimize wind farm layouts for maximum annual energy production (AEP). The optimization effort requires efficient wake models to predict the wake flow and, subsequently, the power generation of wind farms with…
We investigate Lighthill's proposed turbulent mechanism for near-wall concentration of spanwise vorticity by calculating mean flows conditioned on motion away from or toward the wall in an $Re_\tau=1000$ database of plane-parallel channel…
We investigate the vortical dynamics generated during the forced exit of a circular cylinder through a quiescent free surface. While previous work on exit flows has largely emphasized cavity collapse and force generation, the formation and…
In this work, we present a high-fidelity and efficient point-particle direct numerical simulation framework based on a multi-block overset curvilinear grid system, enabling large-scale Lagrangian particle tracking in complex geometries with…
We investigated the low Prandtl number Rayleigh-B\'enard (RB) system with a melting top boundary under horizontal magnetic fields. This study is crucial to gain physical insights into the melting dynamics of thermal storage systems, which…
The Rankine oval is a classical geometry in potential flow, formed by superimposing a uniform stream with velocity U and a source-sink pair separated by distance 2a with strength m, resulting in a closed stagnation streamline whose shape is…
The extensional rheology of dilute suspensions of spheres in viscoelastic or polymeric liquids is studied computationally. At low polymer concentration (c) and Deborah number (De), a wake of highly stretched polymers forms downstream of the…
A new arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving surfaces is presented. It is based on a general curvilinear surface parameterization that describes the motion of the ALE frame. Its in-plane part…
Elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT) has been demonstrated to be able to sustain in two-dimensional (2D) channel flow; however the systematic investigations on 2D EIT remain scare. This study addresses this gap by examining the statistical…
An analytical theory is presented for linear, local, short-wavelength instabilities in swirling flows, in which axial shear, differential rotation, radial thermal stratification, viscosity, and thermal diffusivity are all taken into…
We study the stationary, intermittent, and nonlinear dynamics of natural and forced supersonic twin-rectangular turbulent jets using spectral modal decomposition. We decompose large-eddy simulation data into four reflectional symmetry…
This study investigates the onset of linear instabilities and their later nonlinear interactions in the shear layer of an initially-laminar jet using a combination of stability analysis and data from high-fidelity flow simulations. We…
We report the presence of traveling Elastic Waves in experiments featuring a shear flow in the very low Reynolds number regime (Re < 0.1) with no external curvatures or internal perturbations in the channel design. The classic…