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Shock-boundary layer interactions (SBLI) on hypersonic cone step flows exhibit a range of intrinsic unsteady behaviors, from shear-layer oscillations to large-scale pulsations. This work investigates the unsteadiness in a cone-step geometry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chase Jenquin , Eric L. Cui , Anubhav Dwivedi , G. S. Sidharth , Joseph S. Jewell

This short article describes flow parameters, numerical method, and animations of the fluid dynamics video "LES of an Inclined Jet into a Supersonic Turbulent Crossflow"…

We find actual evidence, relying upon vorticity time series taken in a high Reynolds number atmospheric experiment, that to a very good approximation the surface boundary layer flow may be described, in a statistical sense and under certain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kholmyansky , L. Moriconi , A. Tsinober

One-dimensional numerical simulations based on hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian approach are performed to investigate the interactions between propagating shock waves and dispersed evaporating water droplets in two-phase gas-droplet flows.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Zhiwei Huang , Huangwei Zhang

Turbulence modeling has the potential to revolutionize high-speed vehicle design by serving as a co-equal partner to costly and challenging ground and flight testing. However, the fundamental assumptions that make turbulence modeling such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-18 Chitrarth Prasad , Datta V. Gaitonde

Resolvent analysis is used to study the low-frequency behaviour of the laminar oblique shock wave / boundary layer interaction (SWBLI). It is shown that the computed optimal gain, which can be seen as a transfer function of the system,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-08 B. Bugeat , J. -C. Robinet , J. -C. Chassaing , P. Sagaut

Boundary layer turbulence in coastal regions differs from that in deep ocean because of bottom interactions. In this paper, we focus on the merging of surface and bottom boundary layers in a finite-depth coastal ocean by numerically solving…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Chao Yan , James C. McWilliams , Marcelo Chamecki

This work is a numerical study of a transitional shock wave boundary layer interaction (SWBLI). The main goal is to improve our understanding of the well known low-frequency SWBLI unsteadiness and especially the suspected role of triadic…

The work addresses 2D and 3D turbulent transonic flows past a wall with an expansion corner. A curved shock wave is formed upstream of a cylinder located above the corner. Numerical solutions of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-31 Alexander Kuzmin

The paper investigates shock-induced vortical flows within inhomogeneous media of nonuniform thermodynamic properties. Numerical simulations are performed using an Eularian type mathematical model for compressible multi-component flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. F. Nowakowski , A. Ballil , F. C. G. A Nicolleau

The shock-boundary layer interaction over the convex wall of a supersonic turbine vane is studied with a focus on extreme separation bubble events and the interplay between the bubble, streaks, and streamwise vortices. The present analysis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Hugo Lui , William Wolf

Time-dependent visualisations of large-scale direct and large-eddy simulations (DNS and LES) of a turbulent boundary layer reaching up to $Re_\theta=4300$ are presented. The focus of the present fluid dynamics video is on analysing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-20 Philipp Schlatter , Mattias Chevalier , Miloš Ilak , Dan S. Henningson

Boundary layers of adiabatic and isothermal curved walls are investigated for a supersonic turbine cascade, including the effects of shock-boundary layer interactions (SBLIs). Wall-resolved large eddy simulations (LES) are performed for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-19 Gabriel Y. R. Hamada , William R. Wolf , Hugo F. S. Lui , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

This paper discusses the mutual interactions between a thin flexible aluminum plate and supersonic flow using two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations. Calculations are performed using an open source library, SU2, that solves partial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-16 Himakar Ganti , Luis Bravo , Anindya Ghosal , Prashant Khare

We present numerical simulations of the adiabatic interaction of a shock with a clumpy region containing many individual clouds. Our work incorporates a sub-grid turbulence model which for the first time makes this investigation feasible.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-03 R. Alūzas , J. M. Pittard , T. W. Hartquist , S. A. E. G. Falle , R. Langton

The generation mechanism of wall heat flux is one of the fundamental problems in supersonic/hypersonic turbulent boundary layers. A novel heat decomposition formula under the curvilinear coordinate was proposed in this paper. The new…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-05 Xiaodong Liu , Chen Li , Pengxin Liu , Qilong Guo , Xianxu Yuan , Dong Sun

Direct numerical simulations are conducted to study the receptivity and transition mechanisms in a solitary wave boundary layer developing over randomly organized wave-like bottom topography. The boundary layer flow shows a selective…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-24 Asim Önder , Philip L. -F. Liu

Shocks are ubiquitous in astrophysical sources, many of which involve relativistic bulk motions, leading to the formation of relativistic shocks. Such relativistic shocks have so far been studied mainly in one dimension, for simplicity, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Prasanta Bera , Jonathan Granot , Michael Rabinovich , Paz Beniamini

We study collisions between two strongly interacting atomic Fermi gas clouds. We observe exotic nonlinear hydrodynamic behavior, distinguished by the formation of a very sharp and stable density peak as the clouds collide and subsequent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-18 James Joseph , John E. Thomas , Manas Kulkarni , Alexander G. Abanov

This experimental and numerical study examines transition to turbulence for a Cone-Cylinder-Flare geometry at Mach 7 and across a broad Reynolds number range. The focus is set on both attached boundary layers and separated shock-boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Clément Caillaud , Mathieu Lugrin , Nicolas Severac , Sébastien Esquieu