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Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool that can reveal the linear amplification mechanisms between the forcing inputs and the response outputs about a base flow. These mechanisms can be revealed in terms of a pair of forcing and response…

This work introduces a formulation of resolvent analysis that uses wavelet transforms rather than Fourier transforms in time. Under this formulation, resolvent analysis may extend to turbulent flows with non-stationary mean states; the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Eric Ballouz , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

This work introduces a formulation of resolvent analysis that uses wavelet transforms rather than Fourier transforms in time. This allows resolvent analysis to be extended to turbulent flows with non-stationary means in addition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Eric Ballouz , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

We present a robust optimisation framework for computing invariant solutions of wall-bounded flows by recasting the Navier-Stokes equations as a variational problem as established in Ashtari and Schneider, JFM (2023). The approach minimises…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Davide Lasagna

This paper extends the resolvent formalism for wall turbulence proposed by McKeon and Sharma(2010) to account for the effect of streamwise-constant riblets. Under the resolvent formulation, the Navier-Stokes equations are interpreted as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-15 Andrew Chavarin , Mitul Luhar

Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing turbulent flows and in particular provides an approximation of coherent flow structures. Despite recent algorithmic advances, computing resolvent modes for flows with more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 Aaron Towne , Georgios Rigas , Ethan Pickering , Tim Colonius

Resolvent analysis identifies the most responsive forcings and most receptive states of a dynamical system, in an input--output sense, based on its governing equations. Interest in the method has continued to grow during the past decade due…

Traditional resolvent analysis is a powerful framework for identifying the most amplified input-output structures in fluid flows from a stationary base state. Extending this resolvent analysis to periodic base flows poses computational…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Max Howell , Sicheng He

Resolvent analysis of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations provides useful insight into the dynamics of transitional and turbulent flows and can provide a model for the dominant coherent structures within the flow, particularly for flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Eduardo Martini , Daniel Rodríguez , Aaron Towne , André V. G. Cavalieri

The resolvent formulation of the Navier$\text{--}$Stokes equations gives a means for the characterization and prediction of features of turbulent flows$\text{---}$such as statistics, structures and their nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-28 Scott T. M. Dawson , Beverley J. McKeon

Transient growth and resolvent analyses are routinely used to assess non-asymptotic properties of fluid flows. In particular, resolvent analysis can be interpreted as a special case of viewing flow dynamics as an open system in which…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mihailo R. Jovanović

Recent simulations indicate that streamwise-preferential porous materials have the potential to reduce drag in wall-bounded turbulent flows(Gomez-de-Segura & Garcia-Mayoral 2019). This paper extends the resolvent formulation to study the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-26 Andrew Chavarin , Garazi Gomez-de-Segura , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral , Mitul Luhar

An analysis of the statistics of the non-linear terms in resolvent analysis is performed in this work for turbulent Couette flow at low Reynolds number. Data from a direct numerical simulation of a minimal flow unit, at Reynolds number 400,…

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 develop an optimal resolvent-based estimator and controller to predict and attenuate unsteady vortex shedding fluctuations in the laminar wake of a NACA 0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of 6.5 degrees, chord-based Reynolds number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-13 Junoh Jung , Rutvij Bhagwat , Aaron Towne

Performing global resolvent analysis for high-Reynolds-number turbulent flow calls for the handling of a large discrete operator. Even though such large operator is required in the analysis, most applications of resolvent analysis extracts…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-25 Jean Hélder Marques Ribeiro , Chi-An Yeh , Kunihiko Taira

We present an optimization-based method to efficiently calculate accurate nonlinear models of Taylor vortex flow. We use the resolvent formulation of McKeon & Sharma (2010) to model these Taylor vortex solutions by treating the nonlinearity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Benedikt Barthel , Xiaojue Zhu , Beverley J. McKeon

Resolvent analysis provides a framework to predict coherent spatio-temporal structures of largest linear energy amplification, through a singular value decomposition (SVD) of the resolvent operator, obtained by linearizing the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-01 Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Eric Ballouz , H. Jane Bae , Scott T. M. Dawson

We present a resolvent-based framework for estimating turbulent velocity fluctuations in the wake of a spanwise-periodic NACA0012 airfoil at Mach 0.3, Reynolds number 23,000, and an angle of attack of 6 degrees. Building on the methodology…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-28 Junoh Jung , Aaron Towne

We study the effectiveness of the time-localised principal resolvent forcing mode at actuating the near wall cycle of turbulence. The mode is restricted to a wavelet pulse and computed from an SVD of the windowed wavelet-based resolvent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-06 Eric Ballouz , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae
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