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This paper presents a new theory of turbulence in time-independent non-Newtonian fluids. The wall layer is modelled in terms of unsteady exchange of viscous momentum between the wall and the main stream, following the classic visualisation…

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We study the transition to turbulence from the perspective of the velocity gradient tensor dynamics. Our work is motivated by the observation of nonlinear structures emerging during transition, as revealed by vortex identifiers such as the…

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The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

This paper investigates wall boundary condition schemes for the simulation of turbulent flows using the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) coupled to turbulence models with wall functions. The analysis focuses on two schemes: a regularized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jorge Ponsin , Carlos Lozano

Turbulent emulsions are ubiquitous in chemical engineering, food processing, pharmaceuticals, and other fields. However, our experimental understanding of this area remains limited due to the multi-scale nature of turbulent flow and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yaning Fan , Yi-Bao Zhang , Jinghong Su , Lei Yi , Cheng Wang , Chao Sun

We propose an enhanced wall-boundary treatment for the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), designed for high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows on adaptively refined Cartesian grids. The method improves the slip-velocity bounce-back scheme by…

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This work explores a novel approach to mitigating turbulence in fusion plasmas through spatially modulated plasma profiles. By imposing a harmonic modulation on plasma parameters, we introduce conditions that alter the propagation…

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In this paper, we propose improved wall-treatment strategies for meshfree methods applied to turbulent flows. The goal is to enhance wall-function handling in simulations of high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows and to understand the…

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This work proposes two algorithmic approaches to extract critical dynamical mechanisms in wall-bounded turbulence with minimum human bias. In both approaches, multiple types of coherent structures are spatiotemporally tracked, resulting in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ahmed Elnahhas , Emma Lenz , Parviz Moin , Adrián Lozano-Durán , H. Jane Bae

Collisionless fast-magnetosonic shocks are often treated as smooth, planar boundaries, yet observations point to organized corrugation of the shock surface. A plausible driver is upstream turbulence. Broadband fluctuations arriving at the…

In the boundary layer of multicomponent fluid mixtures, the species-specific mass flux in the wall-normal direction is determined by the combination of turbulent-diffusiophoretic diffusion due to composition gradients, and diffusion due to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-10 Sverre G. Johnsen

We present the results of a Direct Numerical Simulation of a particle-laden spatially developing turbulent boundary layer up to Re{\theta} = 2500. Two main features differentiate the behavior of inertial particles in a zero-…

Lagrangian properties obtained from a Particle Tracking Velocimetry experiment in a turbulent flow at intermediate Reynolds number are presented. Accurate sampling of particle trajectories is essential in order to obtain the Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Berg , Soren Ott , Jakob Mann , Beat Luthi

In turbulent flows subject to strong background rotation, the advective mechanisms of turbulence are superseded by the propagation of inertial waves, as the effects of rotation become dominant. While this mechanism has been identified…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 J. A. Brons , P. J. Thomas , A. Potherat

Lagrangian stochastic methods are widely used to model turbulent flows. Scarce consideration has, however, been devoted to the treatment of the near-wall region and to the formulation of a proper wall-boundary condition. With respect to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-07 Guilhem Balvet , Jean-Pierre Minier , Yelva Roustan , Martin Ferrand

In this work, a transformation, which maps the mean velocity profiles of compressible wall-bounded turbulent flows to the incompressible law of the wall is proposed. Unlike existing approaches, the proposed transformation successfully…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-23 Kevin Patrick Griffin , Lin Fu , Parviz Moin

The velocity circulation, a measure of the rotation of a fluid within a closed path, is a fundamental observable in classical and quantum flows. It is indeed a Lagrangian invariant in inviscid classical fluids. In quantum flows, circulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-17 Nicolás P. Müller , Juan Ignacio Polanco , Giorgio Krstulovic

This Letter identifies the physical mechanism for the quench of turbulent resistivity in 2D MHD. Without an imposed, ordered magnetic field, a multi-scale, blob-and-barrier structure of magnetic potential forms spontaneously. Magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-07 Xiang Fan , P. H. Diamond , L. Chacón

We investigate the mechanisms by which inertial solid particles modulate turbulence and alter the fluid mass transport in dense turbulent liquid-solid flows. To this end, we perform Euler-Lagrange simulations at friction Reynolds number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-13 Jonathan S. Van Doren , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

Despite the nonlinear nature of wall turbulence, there is evidence that the energy-injection mechanisms sustaining wall turbulence can be ascribed to linear processes. The different scenarios stem from linear stability theory and comprise…