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Coherent motions associated with extreme wall shear stress events are investigated for adverse pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers (APG-TBLs). The analyses are performed using wall-resolved large eddy simulations of a NACA0012…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-07 Leandro J. O. Silva , William R. Wolf

Turbulent boundary layers under adverse pressure gradients are studied using well-resolved large-eddy simulations (LES) with the goal of assessing the influence of the streamwise pressure development. Near-equilibrium boundary layers were…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-11 P. Schlatter , R. Vinuesa , A. Bobke , R. Örlü

A flat plate turbulent boundary layer (TBL) is experimentally subjected to a family of 22 favorable-adverse pressure gradients (FAPGs) by using a ceiling panel of variable convex curvature. We define a FAPG as a sequence of streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-17 Aadhy Parthasarathy , Theresa Saxton-Fox

A wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) of the fluid flow around a 30P30N airfoil is conducted at a Reynolds number of Rec=750,000 and an angle of attack (AoA) of 9 degrees. The simulation results are validated against experimental data…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-11 Ricard Montalà , Benet Eiximeno , Arnau Miró , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ivette Rodriguez

We report on a investigation of turbulent bubbly flows. Bubbles of a size larger than the dissipative scale, cannot be treated as point-wise inclusions, and generate important hydrodynamic fields in the carrier fluid when in motion.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-17 Alessio Innocenti , Alice Jaccod , Stéphane Popinet , Sergio Chibbaro

In the present study, we conduct direct numerical simulations to investigate the near-wall dynamics of compressible turbulent boundary layers at the free-stream Mach number of 6 laden with heavy particles. By inspecting the instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Ming Yu , Lihao Zhao , Yibin Du , Xianxu Yuan , Chunxiao Xu

Microvortex generators are passive control devices smaller than the boundary layer thickness that energise the boundary layer to prevent flow separation with limited induced drag. In this work, we use direct numerical simulations (DNSs) to…

Pore-resolved direct numerical simulations of turbulent open channel flow are performed comparing the structure and dynamics of turbulence over impermeable rough and smooth walls to a porous sediment bed at permeability Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-02 Shashank K. Karra , Sourabh V. Apte , Xiaoliang He , Timothy D. Scheibe

Wall-bounded turbulent shear flows are known to exhibit universal small-scale dynamics that are modulated by large-scale flow structures. Strong pressure gradients complicate this characterization, however; they can cause significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-18 Sean P. Carney , Robert D. Moser

We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow over porous walls. In the fluid region the flow is governed by the incompressible Navier--Stokes (NS) equations, while in the porous layers the Volume-Averaged…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Marco E. Rosti , Luca Cortelezzi , Maurizio Quadrio

A new approach to turbulence simulation, based on a combination of large-eddy simulation (LES) for the whole flow and an array of non-space-filling quasi-direct numerical simulations (QDNS), which sample the response of near-wall turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-20 Neil D. Sandham , Roderick Johnstone , Christian T. Jacobs

This paper report on the design of an experiment to establish an experimental self-similar adverse pressure gradient (APG) turbulent boundary layer (TBL) flow at the verge of separation in order to characterise its statistical structure and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-20 Muhammad Shehzad , Bihai Sun , Callum Atkinson , Julio Soria

The interaction between an incident shock wave and a Mach-6 undisturbed hypersonic laminar boundary layer over a cold wall is addressed using direct numerical simulations (DNS) and wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (WMLES) at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lin Fu , Michael Karp , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin , Javier Urzay

A promising and cost-effective method for numerical simulation of high Re wall-bounded flows is wall-modeled large-eddy simulation. Most wall models are formulated from the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS). These RANS-based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-08 Ahmed Elnahhas , Adrián Lozano-Durán , Parviz Moin

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of flow in a turbulent channel with a random rough wall is performed at $Re_{\tau}=400$ and $600$. The roughness geometry corresponds to the experiments of Flack and Schultz (personal communication). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-13 R. Ma , K. Alamé , K. Mahesh

In this study, a new well-resolved large-eddy-simulation (LES) of an incompressible near-equilibrium adverse-pressure-gradient (APG) turbulent boundary layer (TBL) over a flat plate is presented. In this simulation, we have established a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-07 Ramon Pozuelo , Qiang Li , Philipp Schlatter , Ricardo Vinuesa

The influence of high-enthalpy effects on hypersonic turbulent boundary layers is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations (DNS). A quasi-adiabatic flat-plate air flow at free-stream Mach number equal to 10 is simulated up to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-31 Donatella Passiatore , Luca Sciacovelli , Paola Cinnella , Giuseppe Pascazio

The objective of this work is to investigate the unexplored laminar-to-turbulent transition of a heated flat-plate boundary layer with a fluid at supercritical pressure. Two temperature ranges are considered: a subcritical case, where the…

The flow of the laminar boundary layer on a flat plate is studied with simulation of Navier-Stokes equations. The mechanisms of flow instability at external edge of the boundary layer and near the wall are analyzed using the energy gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-20 Hua-Shu Dou , Wenqian Xu , Boo Cheong Khoo

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