Fluid Dynamics
The main motivation of this work is the quantitative prediction and description of particle manipulation (displacement across streamlines) in microfluidic flow. Much attention has been paid recently to placing particles in fast oscillatory…
In this work we consider the problem of constructing initial conditions for a flow model such that the resulting flow evolution leads to a self-similar energy cascade consistent with Kolmogorov's statistical theory of turbulence. As a first…
The transient growth of disturbances made possible by the non-normality of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations plays an important role in bypass transition for many shear flows. Transient growth is typically quantified by the maximum…
Any micropolar fluid containing magnetic particles, such as blood or ferrofluids, subjected to an external magnetic field experiences a magnetic torque due to the misalignment between particle magnetization and the magnetic field. This…
The effective transport of heat and mass is crucial to both industrial applications and physiological processes. Recent research has evaluated the benefit of using flexible reeds for triggering the vortex induced vibration to enhance…
This paper presents a quasi-analytical framework for "Carreau-Yasuda-like" fluids with a viscosity characterized by two constant plateau at low and high shear rates connected by a shear-thinning branch, and flowing in slightly tapered…
Large-eddy simulations (LES) require closures for filtered production rates because the resolved fields do not contain all correlations that govern chemical source terms. We develop a graph neural network (GNN) that predicts filtered…
Turbulent heat and freshwater transport at ice-ocean interfaces controls glacier and iceberg melt rates, yet the underlying physics remains poorly constrained. Parameterizations that assume shear boundary layer scaling are commonly used,…
Turbulent separated flows in axisymmetric expansions can sustain fundamentally different transport organization despite nearly identical mean topology. Using stereo-PIV and time-resolved planar PIV, we compare abrupt $90^\circ$ (step) and…
This study introduces a novel experimental configuration using OH-PLIF imaging to directly determine the stretch factor ($I_0$) in laminar premixed hydrogen flames transitioning from a quasi-stable to a thermodiffusively unstable regime. A…
The mechanical response of yield-stress materials below the yield point remains a subject of debate. Two of the most widely used constitutive models for these materials offer fundamentally conflicting views: one permits plastic flow at all…
Wind turbines operating in the atmospheric boundary layer are constantly exposed to time-varying flow conditions. These disturbances often occur on similar time scales to wind-turbine controllers, which may interfere with wind-farm control…
Large Eddy Simulations with flamelet-based thermochemistry are used to investigate the behaviour of a premixed hydrogen-air flame stabilised by a bluff-body. Validation against experimental data is carried out first to demonstrate the…
We numerically simulate the two-dimensional inertial flow with the van der Waals effect in a straight periodic channel around the Poiseuille and Couette stationary states. Even though the flow remains laminar macroscopically, we observe…
We investigate how the defining statistical features of three-dimensional turbulence respond to systematic reductions of the Fourier-space triadic interaction network. Using direct numerical simulations of both fractally and homogeneously…
This work develops a spherical-multipole expansion of Goldstein's acoustic analogy, for the prediction of tonal noise from rotating propellers. The acoustic field is expressed through spherical multipoles, which separate source integrals…
The impact of thermodiffusive effects on combustion noise in turbulent premixed slot jet flames is investigated using Direct Numerical Simulations. Two thermodiffusively unstable lean hydrogen-air flames are compared with a…
A two-color laser-induced fluorescence (2C-LIF) technique is presented for investigating droplet impact on thin liquid films, enabling simultaneous, spatially and temporally resolved measurements of film thickness and scalar concentration.…
Rayleigh-B\'enard convection under an imposed inductionless magnetic field is analysed statistically from the perspective of single-point and multi-scale energy budgets. The data is obtained from direct numerical simulations with a Rayleigh…
The dynamic flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in brain ventricles exhibits flow features on several scales, both spatially and temporally. Most analysis of this complex flow and the accompanying transport has used instantaneous (Eulerian)…