Fluid Dynamics
Assessment of the thermo-hydraulic performance of heat exchangers using computational fluid dynamics is a challenging task. The intricate geometries of a heat exchanger require a fine discretization of the flow passage, which consequently…
Drop impacts are ubiquitous in natural and industrial processes, yet the influence of drop shape on impact force remains a fundamental open question. Combining experiments with theoretical analysis, we show that drop shape plays a critical…
Tear film rupture on the corneal surface plays a critical role in ocular health and visual comfort. Conventional theoretical approaches often idealize the cornea as a perfectly smooth surface, ignoring the surface roughness that are…
We introduce a method for detecting regularity loss in solutions to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations using the approximation error of Sinusoidal Representation Networks (SIRENs). SIRENs use sin() activations, producing…
Water drops sliding on hydrophobic surfaces spontaneously separate charges at their rear. It is unclear how this charge separation affects the contact angles of a sliding drop. We slide grounded and insulated drops on hydrophobic surfaces…
Understanding fluid flow through porous media with complex geometries is essential for improving the design and operation of packed-bed reactors. Most existing studies focus on spherical packings, having as a consequence that accurate…
This work presents a fast, uncertainty-aware sequential data assimilation framework for estimating key aerodynamic states (e.g., instantaneous vorticity fields and aerodynamic loads) during severe gust encounters, where vortex-gust…
This study presents a surrogate model designed to predict the Nusselt number distribution in an enclosed impinging jet arrays, where each jet function independently and where jets can be transformed from inlets to outlets, leading to a vast…
We study the coalescence of identical viscous blisters beneath an elastic sheet both experimentally and numerically. Using a time-resolved synthetic schlieren technique, we measure the evolution of the thickness field of the merging…
Unresolved thin-film dynamics often causes spurious coalescence in diffuse-interface simulations of multiphase flows. We address this issue by introducing a fully local repulsive near-contact flux in a conservative Allen--Cahn phase-field…
A fluid mechanics problem is solved which technological prototype is a fluid acoustic contact that is an inherent element of ultrasonic non-destructive testing procedures. It is well known that the acoustic contact established with an…
Active multi-fidelity surrogate modeling is developed for multi-condition airfoil shape optimization to reduce high-fidelity CFD cost while retaining RANS-level accuracy. The framework couples a low-fidelity-informed Gaussian process…
We study the effects of hydrodynamic interactions between a wall and the Purcell three-link swimmer in the two-dimensional case. After deriving the equations of motion in a low Reynolds number regime using Resistive Force Theory with…
The classical problem of steady streaming induced by an oscillating object has been studied extensively, but prior work has focused almost exclusively on single-frequency oscillations, which result in symmetric, quadrupole-like flows. Here…
We derive an analytical solution for the one-point distribution of a passive scalar in decaying homogeneous turbulence, in the limit of strong turbulence (high Re, fixed Schmidt number). Velocity statistics are governed by the Euler…
The precise encapsulation of deformable particles in multiphase flows involves complex transient Fluid-Structure Interactions (FSI) and topological interfacial changes. In the context of single-cell analysis, a numerical framework that…
The analysis of flow around buildings has gained significant research interest across various domains, including pedestrian safety, pollutant dispersion, natural ventilation, and building energy efficiency. While these domains frequently…
We study the flow of a Bingham yield-stress fluid in a pore network model where the throats have radii drawn from a uniform distribution. We consider the case in which a fraction of the largest radii is blocked. The fluid can flow only…
Extensive studies have investigated the transition mechanism of boundary layers initiated by a single primary instability. In a real-world scenario, however, multiple primary instabilities of different physical nature would coexist and…
We present a physics-constrained, data-driven subgrid-scale (SGS) stress closure for large-eddy simulation (LES) in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Trained on filtered-downsampled (FD) data from LBM direct numerical simulation (DNS) of…