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Resolvent analysis has demonstrated encouraging results for modeling coherent structures in jets when compared against their data-educed counterparts from high-fidelity large-eddy simulations (LES). We formulate resolvent analysis as an…
This work applies resolvent analysis to incompressible flow through a rectangular duct, in order to identify dominant linear energy-amplification mechanisms present in such flows. In particular, we formulate the resolvent operator from…
In aerodynamic design, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools has long relied on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Unsteady RANS (URANS) turbulence models. However, these methods face limitations in predicting…
High-fidelity simulations are performed to study active flow control techniques for alleviating deep dynamic stall of a SD7003 airfoil in plunging motion. The flow Reynolds number is $Re=60{,}000$ and the freestream Mach number is $M=0.1$.…
This study focuses on the numerical simulation of high Reynolds number separated flows and proposes a data-driven approach to improve the predictive capability of the SA turbulence model. First, data assimilation was performed on two…
The aim of the present work is to investigate the mechanisms of broadband trailing-edge noise generation to improve prediction tools and control strategies. We focus on a NACA 0012 airfoil at 3 degrees angle of attack and chord Reynolds…
This study investigates active flow control (AFC) of a 30P30N high-lift wing at a Reynolds number Re$_c$ = 450,000 and angle of attack $\alpha$ = 23$^\circ$ using wallresolved large-eddy simulations (LES). Two optimization strategies are…
We have performed large-eddy simulations of turbulent separation control via impedance boundary conditions (IBCs) on a \nacafft airfoil in near-stalled conditions. The uncontrolled baseline flow is obtained for freestream Mach numbers of…
This study explores the use of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for active flow control (AFC) to reduce flow separation on wings at high angles of attack. Concretely, here the DRL agent controls the flow over the three-dimensional NACA0012…
This investigation aims to assess the effect of different types of actuator forcing on the feedback loop of an under-expanded Mach 1.27 planar impinging jet using a resolvent framework. To this end, we employ a Large Eddy Simulation…
A resolvent-based methodology is employed to obtain spatio--temporal estimates of turbulent pipe flow from probe measurements of wall shear-stress fluctuations. Direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) of…
High-pressure transcritical fluid flows are central to modern energy and propulsion systems. A key challenge arises in confined configurations, where optimizing performance requires a detailed understanding of the coupled hydrodynamic and…
The flow condition at the leading edge governs the dynamics of the leading-edge vortex, which is crucial for understanding the separated flow over an airfoil at high angle of attack. Furthermore, with extensive applications in biomimetic…
This work introduces a formulation of resolvent analysis that uses wavelet transforms rather than Fourier transforms in time. Under this formulation, resolvent analysis may extend to turbulent flows with non-stationary mean states; the…
This work applies Resolvent Analysis (RA) to study the dynamics of a hydrogen-air slot flame with a Reynolds number of 5500, a Karlovitz number of 20, and an equivalence ratio of 0.4. Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) data are analyzed…
We propose a novel model-free self-learning cluster-based control strategy for general nonlinear feedback flow control technique, benchmarked for high-fidelity simulations of post-stall separated flows over an airfoil. The present approach…
Resolvent analysis is performed to identify the origin of two-dimensional transonic buffet over an airfoil. The base flow for the resolvent analysis is the time-averaged flow over a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds number of 2000…
The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…
Active flow control is applied to improve the aerodynamic performance of a NACA0018 airfoil operating as a single-bladed vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Results computed by wall-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) highlight the…
The resolvent analysis reveals the worst-case disturbances and the most amplified response in a fluid flow that can develop around a stationary base state. The recent work by Padovan et al.(2020) extended the classical resolvent analysis to…