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This paper extends the resolvent formalism for wall turbulence proposed by McKeon and Sharma(2010) to account for the effect of streamwise-constant riblets. Under the resolvent formulation, the Navier-Stokes equations are interpreted as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-15 Andrew Chavarin , Mitul Luhar

We report that many exact invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for both pipe and channel flows are well represented by just few modes of the model of McKeon & Sharma J. Fl. Mech. 658, 356 (2010). This model provides modes that…

We study the Reynolds number scaling and the geometric self-similarity of a gain-based, low-rank approximation to turbulent channel flows, determined by the resolvent formulation of McKeon & Sharma (2010), in order to obtain a description…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-22 Rashad Moarref , Ati S. Sharma , Joel A. Tropp , Beverley J. McKeon

Recent simulations indicate that streamwise-preferential porous materials have the potential to reduce drag in wall-bounded turbulent flows(Gomez-de-Segura & Garcia-Mayoral 2019). This paper extends the resolvent formulation to study the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-26 Andrew Chavarin , Garazi Gomez-de-Segura , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral , Mitul Luhar

Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing turbulent flows and in particular provides an approximation of coherent flow structures. Despite recent algorithmic advances, computing resolvent modes for flows with more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 Aaron Towne , Georgios Rigas , Ethan Pickering , Tim Colonius

The interaction between shear driven turbulence and stratification is a key process in a wide array of geophysical flows with spatio-temporal scales that span many orders of magnitude. A quick numerical model prediction based on external…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-18 M. A. Ahmed , H. J. Bae , A. F. Thompson , B. J. McKeon

Experimental mean flows are commonly used to study wall-bounded turbulence. However, these measurements are often unable to resolve the near-wall region and thus introduce ambiguity in the velocity closest to the wall. This poses a source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Salvador Rey Gomez , Tomek Jaroslawski

This work introduces a formulation of resolvent analysis that uses wavelet transforms rather than Fourier transforms in time. This allows resolvent analysis to be extended to turbulent flows with non-stationary means in addition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Eric Ballouz , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

A resolvent-based reduced-order representation is used to capture time-averaged second-order statistics in turbulent channel flow. The recently-proposed decomposition of the resolvent operator into two distinct families related to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Ryan M. McMullen , Kevin Rosenberg , Beverley J. McKeon

We present a robust optimisation framework for computing invariant solutions of wall-bounded flows by recasting the Navier-Stokes equations as a variational problem as established in Ashtari and Schneider, JFM (2023). The approach minimises…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Davide Lasagna

At sufficiently high Reynolds numbers, shear-flow turbulence close to a wall acquires universal properties. When length and velocity are rescaled by appropriate characteristic scales of the turbulent flow and thereby measured in \emph{inner…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sajjad Azimi , Tobias M. Schneider

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Eric Ballouz , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

This paper extends the resolvent formulation proposed by McKeon & Sharma (2010) to consider turbulence-compliant wall interactions. Under this formulation, the turbulent velocity field is expressed as a linear superposition of propagating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-09 M. Luhar , A. S. Sharma , B. J. McKeon

The majority of practical flows, particularly those flows in applications of importance to transport, distribution and climate, are turbulent and as a result experience complex three-dimensional motion with increased drag compared with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 B. J. McKeon , A. S. Sharma , I. Jacobi

A central obstacle to understanding the route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows is that the flows are composed of complex, highly fluctuating, and strongly nonlinear states. In the case of pipe flow, models have deepened our understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Santiago J. Benavides , Dwight Barkley

We propose a Navier-Stokes-driven analysis of the mean and fluctuating wall shear stress (WSS) applied to turbulent channel flow data from direct numerical simulations at friction Reynolds numbers up to $Re_\tau\approx 2000$. Starting from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-05 Le Yin , Yongyun Hwang , John Christos Vassilicos

We seek to quantify non-normality of the most amplified resolvent modes and predict their features based on the characteristics of the base or mean velocity profile. A 2-by-2 model linear Navier-Stokes (LNS) operator illustrates how…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Sean Symon , Kevin Rosenberg , Scott T. M. Dawson , Beverley J. McKeon

Invariant solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations play an important role in the spatiotemporally chaotic dynamics of turbulent shear flows. Despite the significance of these solutions, their identification remains a computational…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-11 Omid Ashtari , Tobias M. Schneider

We present a resolvent-based framework for estimating turbulent velocity fluctuations in the wake of a spanwise-periodic NACA0012 airfoil at Mach 0.3, Reynolds number 23,000, and an angle of attack of 6 degrees. Building on the methodology…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-28 Junoh Jung , Aaron Towne

Linearisation of the Navier-Stokes equations about the mean of a turbulent flow forms the foundation of popular models for energy amplification and coherent structures, including resolvent analysis. While the Navier-Stokes equations can be…

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