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Turbulent boundary layers under adverse pressure gradients are studied using well-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) with the goal of assessing the influence of the streamwise pressure development. Near-equilibrium boundary layers were…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-11 P. Schlatter , R. Vinuesa , A. Bobke , R. Örlü

Turbulent stripe, which would occur in turbulent channel flows at transitional Reynolds numbers, was studied experimentally by flow visualization using reflective flake particles. In a range of bulk mean Reynolds number Re = 1700-2000, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-18 Takahiro Tsukahara , Yasuo Kawaguchi , Hiroshi Kawamura

The spatial characteristics and structure of an axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer under strong adverse pressure gradient and weak transverse curvature are investigated using incompressible large-eddy simulation. The boundary layer is on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Di Zhou , Kan Wang , Meng Wang

Turbulent pipe flow is still an essentially open area of research, boosted in the last two decades by considerable progress achieved both on the experimental and numerical frontiers, mainly related to the identification and characterization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-26 R. Jäckel , B. Magacho , B. E. Owolabi , L. Moriconi , D. J. C. Dennis , J. B. R. Loureiro

Experiments were conducted to investigate characteristics of turbulent spots formed in transitional boundary layers developed over a flat plate and an axisymmetric cone placed in similar hypersonic freestream environment of Mach number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Ankit Bajpai , Jagadeesh Gopalan

The evolution of turbulent spots in a parallel shear flow is studied by means of full three-dimensional numerical simulations. The flow is bounded by free surfaces and driven by a volume force. Three regions in the spanwise spot…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joerg Schumacher , Bruno Eckhardt

The stability and transition in the bottom boundary layer under a solitary wave are analysed in the presence of finite amplitude disturbances. First, the receptivity of the boundary layer is investigated using a linear input-output…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Asim Önder , Philip Li-Fan Liu

In this study,we investigate the characteristics of three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers influenced by transverse flow and pressure gradients. Our findings reveal that even without assuming an infinite sweep, a fully developed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Youcheng Xi , Bowen Yan , Guangwen Yang , Song Fu

A new statistical definition for the mean turbulent boundary layer thickness is introduced, based on identification of the point where the streamwise velocity skewness changes sign, from negative to positive, in the outermost region of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Mitchell Lozier , Rahul Deshpande , Ahmad Zarei , Luka Lindić , Wagih Abu Rowin , Ivan Marusic

This paper deals with the optimal streaky perturbations (which maximize the perturbed energy growth) in a wedge flow boundary layer. These three dimensional perturbations are governed by a system of linearized boundary layer equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jose J. Sanchez-Alvarez , Maria Higuera , Jose M. Vega

The recent discovery of unstable travelling waves (TWs) in pipe flow has been hailed as a significant breakthrough with the hope that they populate the turbulent attractor. We confirm the existence of coherent states with internal fast and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-20 A. P. Willis , R. R. Kerswell

We present a construction of isotropic boundary adapted wavelets, which are orthogonal and yield a multi-resolution analysis. We analyze direct numerical simulation data of turbulent channel flow computed at a friction Reynolds number of…

Recent research has shed light on the role of coherent structures in forming layers when stably stratified turbulence is forced with horizontal shear (Lucas, Caulfield & Kerswell, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 832, 2017, pp. 409-437). Here we extend…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Dan Lucas , C. P. Caulfield , Rich R. Kerswell

Following the findings in \cite{wangsawijaya2020}, we re-examine the turbulent boundary layers developing over surfaces with spanwise heterogeneous roughness of various roughness wavelengths $0.32 \leq S/\overline{\delta} \leq 3.63$, where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-01 Dea Daniella Wangsawijaya , Nicholas Hutchins

We present detailed experiments on transient growth of turbulent spots induced by external forcing in plane Couette-Poiseuille flow, which are studied in the framework of linear of transient growth. The experimental investigation is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-03 L. Klotz , J. E. Wesfreid

In the present study, we conduct direct numerical simulations to investigate the near-wall dynamics of compressible turbulent boundary layers at the free-stream Mach number of 6 laden with heavy particles. By inspecting the instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Ming Yu , Lihao Zhao , Yibin Du , Xianxu Yuan , Chunxiao Xu

The modification of dominant coherent structures that extend through the log-region of a drag reduced turbulent boundary layer is studied via examination of two-point correlations from time-resolved particle-image-velocimetry. Measurements…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-13 Yasaman Farsiani , Zeeshan Saeed , Balaji Jayaraman , Brian R. Elbing

Formation of large-scale coherent structures in a turbulent convection via excitation of large-scale instability is studied. The redistribution of the turbulent heat flux due to non-uniform large-scale motions plays a crucial role in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Elperin , I. Golubev , N. Kleeorin , I. Rogachevskii

This paper reports turbulent boundary layer measurements made over open-cell reticulated foams with varying pore size and thickness, but constant porosity ($\epsilon \approx 0.97$). The foams were flush-mounted into a cutout on a flat…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Christoph Efstathiou , Mitul Luhar

One of the simplest problems involving external vorticity in boundary layer flows is the flow over a semi-infinite plate under a stream of uniform shear. We study the transient growth phenomenon in this flow to investigate the role of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Shyam Sunder Gopalakrishnan , Alakesh Chandra Mandal