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Elastic turbulence is a chaotic regime that emerges in polymer solutions at low Reynolds numbers. A common way to ensure stability in numerical simulations of polymer solutions is to add artificially large polymer-stress diffusion. In order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Anupam Gupta , Dario Vincenzi

Numerical simulation of viscoelastic flows is challenging because of the hyperbolic nature of viscoelastic constitutive equations. Despite their superior accuracy and efficiency, pseudo-spectral methods require the introduction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-20 Lu Zhu , Li Xi

We present a novel artificial diffusion method to circumvent the instabilities associated with the standard finite element approximation of convection-diffusion equations. Motivated by the micromorphic approach, we introduce an auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

Context. High-resolution numerical methods have been developed for nonlinear, discontinuous problems as they appear in simulations of astrophysical objects. One of the strategies applied is the concept of artificial viscosity. Aims.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-19 Harald Höller , Antti Koskela , Ernst Dorfi , Werner Benger

The artificial viscosity is reconsidered in smoothed particle hydrodynamics to prevent inter-particle penetration, unwanted heating, and unphysical solutions. The coefficients in the Monaghan's standard artificial viscosity are considered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Nejad-Asghar , A. R. Khesali , J. Soltani

Surface roughness significantly impacts transition to turbulence, especially over high-speed, blunt geometries where surface ablation is necessary to mitigate heat loads during atmospheric entry. Inspired by sand-grain roughness experiments…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Sean Dungan , Mateus Braga , Robyn Macdonald , Christoph Brehm

The existence of drag reduction by polymer additives, well established for wall-bounded turbulent flows, is controversial in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence. To settle this controversy we carry out a high-resolution direct numerical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Rahul Pandit

We determine how MRI-turbulent stresses depend on gas pressure via a suite of unstratified shearing box simulations. Earlier numerical work reported only a very weak dependence at best, results that call into question the canonical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 Johnathan Ross , Henrik N. Latter , Jerome Guilet

Simulations of elastic turbulence, the chaotic flow of highly elastic and inertialess polymer solutions, are plagued by numerical difficulties: The chaotically advected polymer conformation tensor develops extremely large gradients and can…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-27 Sumithra R. Yerasi , Jason R. Picardo , Anupam Gupta , Dario Vincenzi

In this paper a numerical procedure to simulate low diffusivity scalar turbulence is presented. The method consists of using a grid for the advected scalar with a higher spatial resolutions than that of the momentum. The latter usually…

This is the second part to our companion paper. The novel method to quantify artificial dissipation proposed in Part 1 is further applied in turbulent channel flow at $\mathrm{Re_\tau}=180$ using various subgrid-scale models, with an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jing Sun , Roel Verstappen

A modified method is presented to generate artificial magnetic turbulence that is used for test-particle simulations. Such turbulent fields are obtained from the superposition of a set of wave modes with random polarizations and random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz , A. Dosch

We propose a sensor-restrained model for the shear viscosity term within the localized artificial diffusivity (LAD) scheme to stabilize compressible large-eddy simulations with low-pressure-core vortical structures. LAD methods are used in…

The hydrodynamics of viscoelastic materials (for example polymer melts and solutions) presents interesting and complex phenomena, for example instabilities and turbulent flow at very low Reynolds numbers due to normal stress effects and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ellak Somfai , Alexander N. Morozov , Wim van Saarloos

This article presents a multi-physics methodology for the numerical simulation of physical systems that involve the non-linear interaction of multi-phase reactive fluids and elastoplastic solids, inducing high strain-rates and high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first method is the localized-artificial-diffusivity approach of Cook…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Suhas S. Jain , Michael C. Adler , Jacob R. West , Ali Mani , Parviz Moin , Sanjiva K. Lele

The present research proposes a new memory-efficient method using diffusion models to inject turbulent inflow conditions into Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for various flow problems. A guided diffusion…

This paper is focused on the fundamental mechanism(s) of viscoelastic turbulence that lead to polymer induced turbulent drag reduction phenomenon. A great challenge in this problem is the computation of viscoelastic turbulent flows, since…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-18 Vassilios Dallas , J. Christos Vassilicos , Geoffrey F. Hewitt

We carry out a direct numerical simulation (DNS) study that reveals the effects of polymers on statistically steady, forced, homogeneous, isotropic fluid turbulence. We find clear manifestations of dissipation-reduction phenomena: On the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-01 Prasad Perlekar , Dhrubaditya Mitra , Rahul Pandit

We report numerical investigations of wave turbulence in a vibrating plate. The possibility to implement advanced measurement techniques and long time numerical simulations makes this system extremely valuable for wave turbulence studies.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-25 Nicolas Mordant , Benjamin Miquel
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