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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…

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Direct numerical simulations are employed to reveal three distinctly different flow regions in rotating spherical Rayleigh-B\'enard convection. In the low-latitude region $\mathrm{I}$ vertical (parallel to the axis of rotation) convective…

This work investigates the properties of convection in stars with particular emphasis on entrainment across the upper convective boundary (CB). Idealised simulations of turbulent convection in the O-burning shell of a massive star are…

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Semiconvection occurs in regions of stars and planets that are unstable to overturning convection according to the Schwarzschild criterion, yet stable according to the Ledoux criterion. Previous simulations in Cartesian boxes have advanced…

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We report theoretical and experimental investigations of the flow instability responsible for the mushy-layer mode of convection and the formation of chimneys, drainage channels devoid of solid, during steady-state solidification of aqueous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jin-Qiang Zhong , Anthony T. Fragoso , Andrew J. Wells , John S. Wettlaufer

We investigate the effective coupling between heat and fluid dynamics within a thin fluid layer in contact with a solid structure via a rough surface. Moreover, the opposing vertical surfaces of the thin layer are in relative motion. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Tom Freudenberg , Michael Eden

Mixed Convection inside a cavity resulting from thermal buoyancy force under local modulation via rotating flat plate has been investigated. The present model consists of a square cavity with the left and right vertical walls fixed at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Md. Azizul Hakim , Atiqul Islam Ahad , Abrar Ul Karim , Mohammad Nasim Hasan

In a number of geophysical or planetological settings (Earth's inner core, a silicate mantle crystallizing from a magma ocean, or an ice shell surrounding a deep water ocean) a convecting crystalline layer is in contact with a layer of its…

Geophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Renaud Deguen

The role of viscous stress in heating of the fuel mixture in deflagration-to-detonation transition in tubes is studied both analytically and numerically. The analytical theory is developed in the limit of low Mach number; it determines…

The generation mechanism of wall heat flux is one of the fundamental problems in supersonic/hypersonic turbulent boundary layers. A novel heat decomposition formula under the curvilinear coordinate was proposed in this paper. The new…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-05 Xiaodong Liu , Chen Li , Pengxin Liu , Qilong Guo , Xianxu Yuan , Dong Sun

This study investigates laminar boundary layer separation over a fully porous Gaussian bump using pore-resolved direct numerical simulations. The bump is formed by randomly packed spheres. Compared to a solid bump, the porous surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-22 Grace Bridge , Wen Wu

Using direct numerical simulations, we study rotating Rayleigh-B\'enard convection in a cylindrical cell for a broad range of Rayleigh, Ekman, and Prandtl numbers from the onset of wall modes to the geostrophic regime, an extremely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-14 Robert E. Ecke , Xuan Zhang , Olga Shishkina

Dynamic mode decomposition method is deployed to investigate the heat transfer mechanism in a compressible turbulent shear layer and shockwave. To this end, highly resolved Large Eddy Simulations are performed to explore the effect of wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Rozie Zangeneh

We consider the motion of a vortex in an asymptotically homogeneous condensate bounded by a solid wall where the wave function of the condensate vanishes. For a vortex parallel to the wall, the motion is essentially equivalent to that…

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Large regions of giant planets are thought to possess unstable thermal gradients stabilised by gradients in heavy-element composition. The fluid can then develop semi-convection, a double-diffusive instability driven by the unequal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Paul Pružina , Nathanaël Schaeffer , David Cébron

The simultaneous determination of two unknown thermal coefficients for a semi-infinite material under a phase-change process with a mushy zone according to the Solomon-Wilson-Alexiades model is considered. The material is assumed to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-03 Andrea N. Ceretani , Domingo A. Tarzia

We compute fully local boundary layer scales in three-dimensional turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection. These scales are directly connected to the highly intermittent fluctuations of the fluxes of momentum and heat at the isothermal top and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-04 Janet D. Scheel , Joerg Schumacher

We study the velocity field in a horizontal (x-y) plane 1.5 mm above the hot plate in turbulent natural convection using PIV at a Rayleigh number Raw=106 and Prandtl number Pr=5.2. The plane of measurement is inside the velocity boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-07 Vipin Koothur , Baburaj A Puthenveettil

Abridged: We study the properties of clumps formed in three-dimensional weakly magnetized magneto-hydrodynamic simulations of converging flows in the thermally bistable, warm neutral medium (WNM). We find that: (1) Similarly to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robi Banerjee , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Patrick Hennebelle , Ralf Klessen

The buoyancy-driven motion of a deformable bubble rising near a vertical hydrophilic wall is studied numerically. We focus on moderately inertial regimes in which the bubble undergoes low-to-moderate deformations and would rise in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-16 Pengyu Shi , Jie Zhang , Jacques Magnaudet