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Direct numerical simulations of turbulent open channel flow with friction Reynolds numbers of $Re_{\tau}=200,400,600$ are performed. Their results are compared with closed channel data in order to investigate the influence of the free…
Turbulent flows consist of a wide range of interacting scales. Since the scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of the entire scale range is prohibitively expensive at high Reynolds numbers.…
Direct numerical simulations are conducted to study the receptivity and transition mechanisms in a solitary wave boundary layer developing over randomly organized wave-like bottom topography. The boundary layer flow shows a selective…
The asymmetries that arise when a mixing layer involves two miscible fluids of differing densities are investigated using incompressible (low-speed) direct numerical simulations. The simulations are performed in the temporal configuration…
We investigate the Reynolds-shear-stress carrying structures in the outer layer of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers using four direct numerical simulation databases, two cases of non-equilibrium pressure-gradient…
This study explores the dynamics of dispersed bubbly turbulent flow in a channel using interface-resolved direct numerical simulation (DNS) with an efficient Coupled Level-Set Volume-of-Fluid (CLSVOF) solver. The influence of number of…
[Abridged]We present high-resolution three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of breaking waves solving the two-phase Navier-Stokes equations. We investigate the role of the Reynolds and Bond numbers on the energy, bubble and droplet…
An experiment was performed using Dual-plane-SPIV in the LMFL boundary layer facility to determine all of the derivative moments needed to estimate the average dissipation rate of the turbulent kinetic energy, $\varepsilon$, and its…
We use Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the forced Navier-Stokes equation for a 3-dimensional incompressible fluid in order to test recent theoretical predictions. We study the two- and three-point spatio-temporal correlation functions…
This study explores the effect of friction Reynolds number ($Re_\tau \approx 3{,}000$--$13{,}000$) on secondary flows in three-dimensional turbulent boundary layers induced by spanwise surface heterogeneity. Using a combination of…
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent heat transfer in fully-developed channel flows have been performed in a range of friction Reynolds number between 60 and 180, based on the friction velocity and the channel half width $\delta$, with…
Two mechanisms are considered responsible for the turbulence modification due to suspended particles in a turbulent gas-particle suspension. Turbulence augmentation is due to the enhancement of fluctuations by wakes behind particles,…
We investigate a turbulent boundary layer (TBL) with uniform pressure force variations, focusing on understanding its response to local pressure force, local pressure force variation (local disequilibrating effect), and upstream history.…
We study the Reynolds-number effects on the outer region of moderate adverse-pressure-gradient (APG) turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) and find that their small scale energy reduces with increasing friction Reynolds-number ($Re_{\tau}$). The…
We study the statistics of free-surface turbulence at large Reynolds numbers produced by direct numerical simulations in a fluid layer at different thickness with fixed characteristic forcing scale. We observe the production of a transient…
We investigate flow instability created by an oblique shock wave impinging on a Mach 5.92 laminar boundary layer at a transitional Reynolds number. The adverse pressure gradient of the oblique shock causes the boundary layer to separate…
In this article we examine channel flow subject to spatially varying viscosity in the streamwise direction. The Reynolds number is imposed locally with three different ramps. The setup is reminiscent of transient channel flow, but with a…
Particle-resolved direct numerical simulation (PR-DNS) is performed for turbulent open channel flow over a smooth horizontal wall with a vertical cylinder and a dilute set of mobile, heavy, spherical particles. At the chosen parameter point…
Processing the data from a large variety of zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer flows shows that the Reynolds-number-dependent scaling law, which the present authors obtained earlier for pipes, gives an accurate description of the…
A novel approach to wall modeling for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations including flows of moderate and large Reynolds numbers is presented. The basic idea is that a problem-tailored function space allows prediction of turbulent…