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We study the dynamics of inertial particles in two dimensional incompressible flows. The Maxey-Riley equation describing the motion of inertial particles is used to construct a four dimensional dissipative bailout embedding map. This map…
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Hydropower is an important source of renewable energy that provides clean energy. Pump-turbine type hydraulic turbine is widely used to mitigate the intermittent energy demand and store a large-scale energy. Pump-turbine operates in reverse…
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We investigate the modes of deformation of an initially spherical bubble immersed in a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent background flow. We perform direct numerical simulations of the two-phase incompressible Navier-Stokes equations,…
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We present new experimental results on the development of turbulent spots in channel flow. The internal structure of a turbulent spot is measured, with Time Resolved Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry. We report the observation of…
We propose a numerical approach to study the mechanics of a flowing bubble in a constraint micro channel. Using an open source two phase flow solver (Gerris, gfs.sourceforge.net) we compute solutions of the bubble dynamics (i.e. shape and…
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