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Motivated by the dynamics within terrestrial bodies, we consider a rotating, strongly thermally stratified fluid within a spherical shell subject to a prescribed laterally inhomogeneous heat-flux condition at the outer boundary. Using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-27 Grace A. Cox , Christopher J. Davies , Philip W. Livermore , James Singleton

Boundary layer transition triggered by a discrete roughness element generates a turbulent wedge that spreads laterally as it proceeds downstream. Historical literature reports the spreading half angle is approximately 6$^{\circ}$ in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-19 Alexandre R. Berger , Edward B. White

Spanwise wall oscillation (SWO) of turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) is investigated via direct numerical simulations over an extended actuation region with oscillation periods up to T_{sc}^+=600, scaled by the uncontrolled friction velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Jizhong Zhang , Fazle Hussain , Jie Yao

Most flows in nature and engineering are turbulent because of their large velocities and spatial scales. Laboratory experiments of rotating quasi-Keplerian flows, for which the angular velocity decreases radially but the angular momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-21 Jose M. Lopez , Marc Avila

Turbulent drag reduction through streamwise travelling waves of spanwise wall oscillation is investigated over a wide range of Reynolds numbers. Here, in Part 1, wall-resolved large-eddy simulations in a channel flow are conducted to…

In the present study, we conduct direct numerical simulations of two-way force-coupled particle-laden compressible turbulent boundary layers at the free-stream Mach number of 2.0 for the purpose of examining the effects of particles on the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Ming Yu , Yibin Du , Qian Wang , Siwei Dong , Xianxu Yuan

We investigate relationships between statistics obtained from filtering and from ensemble or Reynolds-averaging turbulence flow fields as a function of length scale. Generalized central moments in the filtering approach are expressed as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-17 J. A. Saenz , D. Aslangil , D. Livescu

Accurate modeling of ice accretion is important for safe and efficient design of aircraft and wind turbine systems. Heat transfer predictions obtained from fluid flow solvers are used as input in ice accretion codes. In glaze ice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-25 Federico Zabaleta , Brett Bornhoft , Suhas S. Jain , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin

The plasmoid instability may lead to fast magnetic reconnection through long current sheets(CS). It is well known that large-Reynolds-number plasmas easily become turbulent. We address the question whether turbulence enhances the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Fabien Widmer , Jörg Büchner , Nobumitsu Yokoi

A quantitative analysis illustrating salient features of a Laminar Separation Bubble (LSB), its transition forming coherent structures, and associated heat transfer has been performed on a flat plate for varying free stream turbulence (fst)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-14 Sonalika Srivastava , Subrata Sarkar

Wall-resolved large eddy simulations are employed to investigate the shock-boundary layer interactions (SBLIs) in a supersonic turbine cascade. An analysis of the suction side separation bubbles forming due to the SBLIs is presented for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-05 H. Lui , T. R. Ricciardi , W. R. Wolf , Carlos Junqueira-Junior

Heat and momentum transfer in wall-bounded turbulent flow, coupled with the effects of wall-roughness, is one of the outstanding questions in turbulence research. In the standard Rayleigh-B\'enard problem for natural thermal convection, it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-05 Michael MacDonald , Nicholas Hutchins , Detlef Lohse , Daniel Chung

Knowledge of turbulent flows over non-flat surfaces is of major practical interest in diverse applications. Significant work continues to be reported in the roughness regime at high Reynolds numbers where the cumulative effect of surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-27 Balaji Jayaraman , Saadbin Khan

We conducted direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of turbulent flow over three-dimensional sinusoidal roughness in a channel. A passive scalar is present in the flow with Prandtl number $Pr=0.7$, to study heat transfer by forced convection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 M. MacDonald , N. Hutchins , D. Chung

We investigate the effects of thermal boundary conditions and Mach number on turbulence close to walls. In particular, we study the near-wall asymptotic behavior for adiabatic and pseudo-adiabatic walls, and compare to the asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Akanksha Baranwal , Diego A. Donzis , Rodney D. W. Bowersox

One of the main challenges in simulating high Reynolds number ($Re$) turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) is the long streamwise distance required for large-scale outer-layer structures to develop, making such simulations prohibitively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 Ronith Stanly , Timofey Mukha , Martin Karp , Stefano Markidis , Philipp Schlatter

Recent advances in data-driven turbulence modeling have established tensor basis neural networks (TBNN) as a physically grounded framework for Reynolds-stress closure in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. However, their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zelong Yuan , Yuzhu Pearl Li

In Nagib, Chauhan and Monkewitz~\cite{NCM07} we concluded that nearly all available $C_f$ relations for zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers are in remarkable agreement over the entire range $Re_\theta$ $<$ O($10^8$), provided one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-24 Hassan Nagib , Peter Monkewitz , K. R. Sreenivasan

In this work, a data-driven wall model for turbulent flows over periodic hills is developed using the feedforward neural network (FNN) and wall-resolved LES (WRLES) data. To develop a wall model applicable to different flow regimes, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Zhideng Zhou , Guowei He , Xiaolei Yang

Scalings of the streamwise velocity energy spectra in turbulent boundary layers were considered in Part 1. A spectral decomposition analysis provided a means to separate out attached and non-attached eddy contributions and was used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-04 Woutijn J. Baars , Ivan Marusic