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This work presents a numerical investigation of soot formation in the Cambridge lab-scale gas turbine combustor. Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a swirl-stabilized ethylene flame are performed using the flamelet generated manifold method…
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In this paper a procedure for large-eddy simulation (LES) has been devised for fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in Fourier space using the renormalized parameters. The parameters calculated using field theory have been taken from…
High-fidelity large-eddy simulations of the flow around two rectangular obstacles are carried out at a Reynolds number of 10,000 based on the free-stream velocity and the obstacle height. The incoming flow is a developed turbulent boundary…
The present study focuses on the assessment of the performance of a Finite Volume Method based, particle-resolved simulation approach to predict the flow through a model packed-bed consisting of 21 layers of spheres arranged in the body…
A previously developed modeling procedure for large eddy simulations (LESs) is extended to allow physical space implementations for inhomogeneous flows. The method is inspired by the well-established theoretical analyses and numerical…
This paper presents transient numerical simulations of hydraulic systems in engineering applications using the spectral element method (SEM). Along with a detailed description of the underlying numerical method, it is shown that the SEM…
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows is computationally expensive and cannot be applied to flows with large Reynolds numbers. Large eddy simulation (LES) is an alternative that is computationally less demanding, but is…
A volume-filtered Euler-Lagrange large eddy simulation methodology is used to predict the physics of turbulent liquid-solid slurry flow through a horizontal pipe. A dynamic Smagorinsky model based on Lagrangian averaging is employed to…
Cornerstone of this research is the examination of fluid flow around NACA0012 airfoil, with the aim of the numerical validation between the experimental results in the wind tunnel and the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) analysis, for the…
In this paper, we developed a mathematical model for the sedimentation process of small particles in a lid-driven cavity flow with an obstacle to model the transport of microplastic particles in rivers. A stationary incompressible…
We present a framework for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) with Immersed Boundaries (IBs) to simulate high Reynolds number flows over complex walls. In this approach, which we call Immersed Boundary-Modeled LES (IBMLES), we volume-filter the…
The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…
Measurement techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Velocimety (MRV) and Magnetic Resonance Concentration (MRC) are useful for obtaining 3D time-averaged flow quantities in complex turbulent flows, but cannot measure turbulent correlations or…
The use of extended surfaces find wide range of applications in heat transfer devices for achieving heat transfer augmentation like gas turbine blade cooling and nuclear reactor core since the last few decades. So, understanding the…
We develop an enrichment wall-model within the spectral element method (SEM) framework for large-eddy simulations of wall-bounded flows. The method augments the polynomial solution in the wall-adjacent elements with an analytical…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a useful tool for prediction of turbulence in aerodynamic and biomedical applications. The choice of appropriate turbulence models is key to reaching accurate predictions. The present investigation…
In this paper, wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is carried out with Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings (FW-H) acoustic analogy to investigate the turbulent flow and hydrodynamic noise of an axisymmetric body of revolution. We first…
High resolution simulations of incompressible flows have become routine across a range of engineering applications. Despite their routine use, due to the high dimensional parameter space present for most practical applications, a…