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We present a derivation of a stochastic model of Navier Stokes equations that relies on a decomposition of the velocity fields into a differentiable drift component and a time uncorrelated uncertainty random term. This type of decomposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Etienne Mémin

We consider the wake flow past a thin two-dimensional flat plate normal to the uniform stream and demonstrate that this flow is turbulent already at a relatively low Reynolds number of $Re = 400$. This is achieved by performing a careful…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Isaac T. Rosin , Melanie S. Chapman , Bartosz Protas , Robert J. Martinuzzi

The familiar divergence and Kelvin-Stokes theorem are generalized by a tensor-valued identity that relates the volume integral of the gradient of a vector field to the integral over the bounding surface of the outer product of the vector…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-01 Jonathan M. Lilly , Joel Feske , Baylor Fox-Kemper , Jeffrey Early

The principle of multiple solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations discussed in this paper is not directed at any particular problems in fluid dynamics, nor at any specific applications. The non-uniqueness principle states that the Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lun-Shin Yao

Traditionally, trends of universal turbulence statistics are presented versus R-lambda, which is the Reynolds number based on Taylor's scale, lambda, and the root-mean-squared (rms) velocity component, u'. Taylor's scale and u', and hence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Reginald J. Hill

Inspired by the lotus effect, many studies in the last decade have focused on micro- and nano-patterned surfaces. They revealed that patterns at the micro-scale combined with high contact angles can significantly reduce skin drag. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-02 Ilenia Battiato

The interaction between small- and large-scale structures, and the coexisting bottom-up and top-down processes are studied in a turbulent plane Couette flow, where space-filling longitudinal rolls appear at relatively low values of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-24 Alessandro Chiarini , Mariadebora Mauriello , Davide Gatti , Maurizio Quadrio

This paper examines how increasing the value of the Reynolds number $Re$ affects the ability of spanwise-forcing techniques to yield turbulent skin-friction drag reduction. The considered forcing is based on the streamwise-travelling waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Davide Gatti , Maurizio Quadrio

Odd viscosity is a transport coefficient that can occur when fluids experience breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetry. Previous knowledge indicates that cylinders in incompressible odd viscous fluids, under no-slip boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ruben Lier

We propose and verify a wave-vector-space version of generalized extended self similarity and broaden its applicability to uncover intriguing, universal scaling in the far dissipation range by computing high-order ($\leq 20\/$) structure…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Sujan K. Dhar , Anirban Sain , Rahul Pandit

Turbulence in fluids is an ubiquitous phenomenon, characterized by spontaneous transition of a smooth, laminar flow to rapidly changing, chaotic dynamics. In 1883, Reynolds experimentally demonstrated that, in an initially laminar flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Rafail V. Abramov

Non-linear effects of the Navier-Stokes equations disappear under the Stokes regime of Newtonian fluid flows disallowing the fluid flow rectification. Here we show mathematically and experimentally that passive flow rectification of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-21 Aryan Mehboudi , Junghoon Yeom

We analyze the data stemming from a forced incompressible hydrodynamic simulation on a grid of 2048^3 regularly spaced points, with a Taylor Reynolds number of Re~1300. The forcing is given by the Taylor-Green flow, which shares…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Alexakis , A. Pouquet

In this work, the equations of dissipative relativistic spin hydrodynamics based on quantum kinetic theory are derived. Employing the inverse-Reynolds dominance (IReD) approach, a resummation scheme based on a power counting in Knudsen and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 David Wagner

We conduct direct numerical simulations for turbulent Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard (RB) convection, driven simultaneously by two scalar components (say, temperature and salt concentration) with different molecular diffusivities, and measure the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Yantao Yang , Roberto Verzicco , Detlef Lohse

The Reynolds equation is derived from the incompressible Navier Stokes equations under the lubrication assumptions of a long and thin domain geometry and a small scaled Reynolds number. The Reynolds equation is an elliptic differential…

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Explicit expressions are derived for the matrices determining the mean translational and rotational swimming velocities and the mean rate of dissipation for Stokesian swimming at low Reynolds number of a distorting sphere in a viscous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-04 B. U. Felderhof , R. B. Jones

In Denicol et al., Phys. Rev. D 85, 114047 (2012), the equations of motion of relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics were derived from the relativistic Boltzmann equation. These equations contain a multitude of terms of second order in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-04-21 E. Molnár , H. Niemi , G. S. Denicol , D. H. Rischke

Direct Numerical Simulations of turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds number 550, 1000, 1500, are used to analyse the turbulent production, transfer and dissipation mechanisms in the compound space of scales and wall-distances by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-31 A. Cimarelli , E. De Angelis , P. Schlatter , G. Brethouwer , A. Talamelli , C. M. Casciola

A three-layer asymptotic structure for turbulent pipe flow is proposed, revealing in terms of intermediate variables, the existence of a Reynolds-number invariant logarithmic region. It provides a theoretical foundation for addressing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Sourabh S. Diwan , Jonathan F. Morrison