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We discuss the application of the resolvent technique to prove stability of plane Couette flow. Using this technique, we derive a threshold amplitude for perturbations that can lead to turbulence in terms of the Reynolds number. Our main…

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The flow over a NACA0012 airfoil at a moderate Reynolds number Re = 50,000 and angle of attack of alpha = 3 degrees is investigated using the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM). The LBM solutions are computed in direct numerical simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-08 Bernardo Luiz Ribeiro , Cayan Dantas , William Wolf

For present study, setting Strouhal Number (St) as control parameter, numerical simulations for flow past oscillating NACA-0012 airfoil at 1,000 Reynolds Numbers (Re) are performed. Temporal profiles of unsteady forces; lift and thrust, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-24 Muhammad Saif Ullah Khalid , Imran Akhtar

The present study numerically investigates the two-dimensional mixed convective flow of air past a square cylinder placed at an angle of incidence $\alpha = 45^{\circ}$ to the free-stream. We perform direct numerical simulations (DNS) for a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-08 Kavin Kabilan , Swapnil Sen , Arun K Saha

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation for compressible flow over supercritical airfoils under various flow conditions must be rapidly and accurately solved to shorten design cycles for such airfoils. Although deep-learning methods…

We investigate the dynamics and the stability of the incompressible flow past a corrugated dragonfly-inspired airfoil in the two-dimensional (2D) $\alpha-Re$ parameter space, where $\alpha$ is the angle of attack and $Re$ is the Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-16 Alessandro Chiarini , Gabriele Nastro

In this paper, a turbulence model based on deep neural network is developed for turbulent flow around airfoil at high Reynolds numbers. According to the data got from the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model, we build a neural network…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-29 Xuxiang Sun , Wenbo Cao , Yilang Liu , Linyang Zhu , Weiwei Zhang

In the age of globalization, commercial aviation plays a central role in maintaining our international connectivity by providing fast air transport services for passengers and freight. However, the upper limit of the aircraft flight…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-26 Esther Lagemann , Steven L. Brunton , Wolfgang Schröder , Christian Lagemann

Accurate prediction of laminar-turbulent transition is a critical element of computational fluid dynamics simulations for aerodynamic design across multiple flow regimes. Traditional methods of transition prediction cannot be easily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-17 Muhammad I. Zafar , Meelan M. Choudhari , Pedro Paredes , Heng Xiao

We perform a resolvent analysis of a compressible turbulent jet, where the optimisation domain of the response modes is located in the acoustic field, excluding the hydrodynamic region, in order to promote acoustically efficient modes. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-02 B. Bugeat , U. Karban , A. Agarwal , L. Lesshafft , P. Jordan

We introduce a method of time series analysis for two-dimensional transient flow patterns based on Topological Flow Data Analysis (TFDA), a new approach to topological data analysis. TFDA identifies local topological flow structures from an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Takashi Sakajo , Takeshi Matsumoto , Shizuo Kaji , Tomoo Yokoyama , Tomoki Uda

This work applies resolvent analysis to incompressible flow through a rectangular duct, in order to identify dominant linear energy-amplification mechanisms present in such flows. In particular, we formulate the resolvent operator from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-30 Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , Ricardo Vinuesa

We investigate the feasibility of gradient-free aeroacoustic shape optimization using the Flux Reconstruction (FR) approach to study two-dimensional flow at low Reynolds numbers. The Overall Sound Pressure Level (OASPL) is computed via the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Mohsen Hamedi , Brian Vermeire

Modelling the noise emitted by turbulent jets is made difficult by their acoustic inefficiency: only a tiny fraction of the near-field turbulent kinetic energy is propagated to the far field as acoustic waves. As a result, jet-noise models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-05 Ugur Karban , Benjamin Bugeat , Aaron Towne , Lutz Lesshafft , Anurag Agarwal , Peter Jordan

The application of drag-control strategies on canonical wall-bounded turbulence, such as periodic channel and zero- or adverse-pressure-gradient boundary layers, raises the question of how to describe control effects consistently for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-22 Yitong Fan , Marco Atzori , Ricardo Vinuesa , Davide Gatti , Philipp Schlatter , Weipeng Li

Cornerstone of this research is the examination of fluid flow around NACA0012 airfoil, with the aim of the numerical validation between the experimental results in the wind tunnel and the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) analysis, for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-13 Andro Rak , Luka Grbčić , Ante Sikirica , Lado Kranjčević

This study computes the optimal normal actuation on the surface of a NACA0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of 15{\deg} and a Reynolds number of Re = 1000, using costs defined for minimal drag and maximal lift. To allow for a general…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-07 Ernold Thompson , Andres Goza

Accurate prediction of the transition from laminar flow to turbulence remains an unresolved challenge despite its importance for understanding a variety of environmental, biological, and industrial phenomena. Well over a century of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-10 John O. Dabiri , Nina Mohebbi , Matthew K. Fu

This study investigates the aerodynamic performance of the symmetric NACA 0018 airfoil under harmonic pitching motions at low Reynolds numbers, a regime characterized by the presence of laminar separation bubbles and their impact on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-18 Krzysztof Rogowski , Maciej Śledziewski , Jan Michna

We study coherent structures in subsonic turbulent jets subject to a flight stream. A thorough characterisation of the effects of a flight stream on the turbulent field was recently performed by Maia et al. (2023) and fluctuation energy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-10 Igor A. Maia , Liam Heidt , Ethan Pickering , Tim Colonius , Peter Jordan , Guillaume Brès