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The high-Reynolds-number wake of a slender body with a turbulent boundary layer is investigated using a hybrid simulation. The wake generator is a 6:1 prolate spheroid and the Reynolds number based on the diameter $D$ is $Re = 10^5$. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 J. L. Ortiz-Tarin , S. Nidhan , S. Sarkar

Accurate prediction of wake dynamics behind hydrofoils is critical for mitigating vortex-induced vibrations and improving the performance of hydraulic machinery. Conventional turbulence modeling approaches often struggle to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-30 Gabriele Gaiti , Chirag Trivedi , Kristian F. Sagmo

Wake interaction is a key factor limiting the performance of floating offshore wind turbine arrays, yet the combined influence of inflow turbulence structure and platform motion on wake dynamics remains poorly understood. This study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ahmad Nabhani , Josep M. Bergada

Wakes of upswept afterbodies are often characterized by a counter-rotating streamwise vortex pair. The unsteady dynamics of these vortices are examined with a spatio-temporally resolved Large-Eddy Simulation dataset on a representative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-01 Rajesh Ranjan , J. -Ch. Robinet , Datta Gaitonde

The high-Reynolds number stratified wake of a slender body is studied using a high-resolution hybrid simulation. The wake generator is a 6:1 prolate spheroid with a tripped boundary layer, the diameter-based body Reynolds number is $Re=…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-21 J. L. Ortiz-Tarin , S. Nidhan , S. Sarkar

Large eddy simulations and three-dimensional proper orthogonal decomposition were used to study the interaction between a large stationary and moving bluff body and a high Reynolds number stably-stratified turbulent boundary layer. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-23 John S. Haywood , Adrian Sescu

Ocean submersibles and aerial vehicles often encounter a density-stratified environment whose effect on flow features is of interest. A 6:1 prolate spheroid of diameter $D$ with velocity $U$ and at a moderate angle of attack (AOA) of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-06 Sheel Nidhan , Sanidhya Jain , Jose L. Ortiz-Tarin , Sutanu Sarkar

The wake of a body moving across the isopycnals of a strongly stratified fluid is characterized by the presence of an intense jet which, under certain circumstances, may become unstable. To get insight into the phenomenology of this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Chang-Fan Mo , Matthieu J. Mercier , Jacques Magnaudet , Jie Zhang

A purely analytical wake model for wind turbines is derived, anchored exclusively in physical interactions between atmospheric turbulence and turbine dynamics, and thus inherently accounting for atmospheric stratification. Unlike empirical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Emeline Noël , Erwan Jézéquel , Pierre-Antoine Joulin

To investigate the formation mechanism of energy spectra of internal waves in the oceans, direct numerical simulations are performed. The simulations are based on the reduced dynamical equations of rotating stratified turbulence. In the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-10 Yuri V. Lvov , Naoto Yokoyama

We attempt to gain some insight into the modeling of the generation of internal waves produced by submarines traveling in the littoral regions of the ocean with the use of high fidelity numerical simulations. These numerical simulations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-08 James W. Rottman , Kyle A. Brucker , Douglas Dommermuth , Dave Broutman

We present a coupled large-eddy simulation (LES) and bed morphodynamics study to investigate the impact of sediment dynamics on the wake flow, wake recovery and power production of a utility-scale marine hydrokinetic vertical-axis turbine…

The problem of submarine sediment slide which generates the surface water waves is considered. To simulate numerically the landslide motion it is used the method which permits to take into account detailed rheological properties of slide…

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 Peng Jiang , Shijun Liao , Bin Xie

Flapping-based propulsive systems rely on fluid-structure interactions to produce thrust. At intermediate and high Reynolds numbers, vortex formation and organization in the wake of such systems are crucial for the generation of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Christophe Brouzet , Christophe Raufaste , Médéric Argentina

Offshore wind is rapidly expanding to meet clean and secure energy needs. New developments are now increasingly constrained to deep seasonally stratified waters. Here, flows past offshore wind infrastructure will increase water column…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-12 Charlie J. Lloyd , Robert M. Dorrell

A novel model of the wake of swimming fish is developed and incorporated into a dynamical model of a fish school to explore the effect of hydrodynamics on the emergent behavior in schooling fish. The model incorporates well-established…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-11 Ji Zhou , Jung-Hee Seo , Rajat Mittal

This paper extends our recent theoretical work concerning the feasibility of stable and accurate computation of turbulence using a large eddy simulation [Ida and Taniguchi, Phys. Rev. E 68, 036705 (2003)]. In our previous paper, it was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masato Ida , Nobuyuki Taniguchi

Wakes of towed and self-propelled bodies in stratified fluids are significantly different from non-stratified wakes. Long time effects of stratification on the development of the wakes of bluff bodies moving at constant speed are well…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-12 Hadar Ben-Gida , Alex Liberzon , Roi Gurka

A turbulent circular disk wake database (Chongsiripinyo \& Sarkar, \textit{J. Fluid Mech.}, vol. 885, 2020) at Reynolds number $\textit{Re} = U_\infty D/\nu = 5 \times 10^{4}$ is interrogated to identify the presence of large-scale streaks…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-18 Akhil Nekkanti , Sheel Nidhan , Oliver T. Schmidt , Sutanu Sarkar
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