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Rotors operating in confined flows, or blockage, are commonly encountered in wind and water tunnels, as well as in shallow or dense deployments of hydrokinetic turbines. Confinement induces a streamwise pressure gradient in the channel,…
Unsteady aerodynamic effects can have a profound impact on aerial vehicle flight performance, especially during agile maneuvers and in complex aerodynamic environments. In this paper, we present a real-time planning and control approach…
The present paper is devoted to the 3D numerical study of unsteady cloud cavitation around the CAV2003 benchmark hydrofoil using a passive cavitation controller method called cavitation-bubble generator (CGs). We investigate this passive…
This paper presents a method to stabilise oscillations occurring in a mixed convective flow in a nearly hemispherical cavity, using actuation based on the receptivity map of the unstable mode. This configuration models the continuous…
Advancements in computational fluid mechanics have largely relied on Newtonian frameworks, particularly through the direct simulation of Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose an alternative computational framework that employs…
We describe a simple classroom demonstration of a fluid-dynamic instability. The demonstration requires only a bucket of water, a piece of string and some used tealeaves or coffee grounds. We argue that the mechanism for the instability, at…
This paper examines the linearized stability of plane Couette flow for stress-power law fluids, which exhibit non-monotonic stress-strain rate behavior. The constitutive model is derived from a thermodynamic framework using a non-convex…
This paper numerically investigates the instability characteristics of decelerating flows. The flow dynamics and temporal evolution of coherent structures in a diverging section with mild spatial pressure gradient are analyzed using…
This paper introduces a novel piston-driven apparatus to study the onset of cavitation in an impulsively accelerated liquid column as it compresses a closed gas volume. The experiment is monitored using high-speed videography and…
In Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies composed of the coupling of different simulations, the uncertainty in one stage may be propagated to the following stage and affect the accuracy of the prediction. In this paper, a framework for…
Turbulent dynamical systems characterized by both a high-dimensional phase space and a large number of instabilities are ubiquitous among many complex systems in science and engineering. The existence of a strange attractor in the turbulent…
Interactional aerodynamics of a quadcopter in hover is numerically investigated in this study. The main objective is to understand major flow structures associated with unsteady airloads on multirotor aircraft. The overset mesh approach is…
We perform full-scale numerical simulation of instability of weakly nonlinear waves on the surface of deep fluid. We show that the instability development leads to chaotization and formation of wave turbulence. We study instability both of…
We numerically investigate the erosion potential of a cavitating liquid jet by means of high-resolution finite volume simulations. As thermodynamic model, we employ a barotropic equilibrium cavitation approach, embedded into a homogeneous…
The concept of Hydrodynamic Cavitation (HC) has emerged as a promising method for wastewater treatment, bio-diesel production and multiple other environmental processes with Venturi-type cavitation reactors showing particular advantages.…
The present investigation provides the first field characterization of the influence of turbulent inflow on the blade structural response of a utility-scale wind turbine (2.5MW), using the unique facility available at the Eolos Wind Energy…
In this letter, a physics-based data-driven strategy is developed to predict vortex-induced drag on a circular cylinder under non-uniform inflow conditions - a prevalent issue for engineering applications at moderate Reynolds numbers.…
The combustion instability is investigated computationally for a multi-injector rocket engine using the flamelet progress variable (FPV) model. A C++ code is developed based on OpenFOAM 4.0 to apply the combustion model. Flamelet tables are…
Using a large number of numerical simulations we examine the steady state of rotating turbulent flows in triple periodic domains, varying the Rossby number $Ro$ (that measures the inverse rotation rate) and the Reynolds number $Re$ (that…
This paper analyses the turbulent energy cascade from the perspective of statistical mechanics, and relates inter-scale energy fluxes to statistical irreversibility and information-entropy production. The microscopical reversibility of the…