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Droplet impact in airflow environments is ubiquitous in nature and industry, making the understanding of this multiphase behavior crucial for technologies such as anti-icing and spray cooling. In this study, the dynamics of droplet impact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yiqing Guo , Xiaomin Wu , Jingchun Min

This study numerically examines the influences of transverse annulation around a cone surface on the characteristics of a flow over an orthocone. This work is inspired by Spyroceras, a fossilized genus of the nautiloid family during the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-13 M. Thakor , K. H. Seh , S. R. Gladson , M. L. Fernandez , L. C. Ivany , M. Green , Y. Sun

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow with transverse wall oscillation (WWO) and with no transverse wall oscillation (NWO) are carried out at friction Reynolds numbers Re{\tau} = 170, 360, and 720. The period and amplitude of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-18 Daniel Coxe , Yulia Peet , Ronald Adrian

This work describes a novel mechanism of laminar flow control of a backward swept wing with a comb-like leading edge device. It is inspired by the leading-edge comb on owl feathers and the special design of its barbs, resembling a cascade…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-14 Muthukumar Muthuramalingam , Edward Talboys , Hermann Wagner , Christoph Bruecker

The spanwise organization of the flow over a thick airfoil is investigated using surface pressure measurements for a range of angles of attack around maximum lift and high Reynolds numbers (1 Million). Locally strong pressure fluctuations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Badoui Hanna , Bérengère Podvin , Caroline Braud

The wake-induced transition on the suction surface of a T106A low-pressure turbine (LPT) blade is investigated through a series of implicit large eddy simulations, solving the two-dimensional (2D) compressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Aditi Sengupta

Turbulent flows are fundamental in engineering and the environment, but their chaotic and three-dimensional (3-D) nature makes them computationally expensive to simulate. In this work, a dimensionality reduction technique is investigated to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-16 Bernat Font

Stretching and retracting wingspan has been widely observed in the flight of birds and bats, and its effects on the aerodynamic performance particularly lift generation are intriguing. The rectangular flat-plate flapping wing with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-12 Shizhao Wang , Xing Zhang , Guowei He , Tianshu Liu

In this work, wake-tail plane interactions are investigated for a tandem wing configuration in buffet conditions using hybrid RANS/LES simulations with the Automated Zonal Detached Eddy Simulation (AZDES) method. The analyzed configuration…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-19 Johannes Kleinert , Maximilian Ehrle , Andreas Waldmann , Thorsten Lutz

The flow condition at the leading edge governs the dynamics of the leading-edge vortex, which is crucial for understanding the separated flow over an airfoil at high angle of attack. Furthermore, with extensive applications in biomimetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ching Chang , You-Peng Shih , Tang-An Li

Winds in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) display a wide range of velocity profiles and turbulence properties that affect wind turbine wake dynamics. However, standard concurrent-precursor large eddy simulations (LES) often neglect…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-23 Kirby S. Heck , Michael F. Howland

The turbulent flow past a wall-mounted square cylinder with an aspect ratio of four was investigated with the aid of Spalart-Allmaras improved delayed detached-eddy simulation (S-A IDDES) and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-22 Mustafa Zhuhair Gheni Yousif , HeeChang Lim

This study examines the center of pressure (CoP) movement of rigid pitching swept wings based on prior measurements by (Zhu, Breuer, 2023}. The wings analyzed feature sweep angles of $0^{\circ}$, $10^{\circ}$, and $20^{\circ}$, and are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-15 Dipan Deb , Yuanhang Zhu , Philip Gaudio , Kenneth Breuer

The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Larissa B. Streher

We obtain an optimal actuation waveform for fast synchronization of periodic airfoil wakes through the phase reduction approach. Using the phase reduction approach for periodic wake flows, the spatial sensitivity fields with respect to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Vedasri Godavarthi , Yoji Kawamura , Kunihiko Taira

This work studies the three-dimensional flow dynamics around a rotating circular cylinder of finite length, whose axis is positioned perpendicular to the streamwise direction. Direct numerical simulations and global stability analyses are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Yongliang Yang , Chenglei Wang , Rui Guo , Mengqi Zhang

The present study investigates unsteady wake dynamics in flow past oscillating cylinder. Two-dimensional computational study is carried out for flow past sinusoidally oscillating cylinder. Operating parameters like Reynolds number, forcing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-25 Anubhav Sinha , Parasuram IVLN

We conducted high-resolution large-eddy simulations (LESs) to explore the effects of opposition control (OC) on turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) over a wing at a chord-based Reynolds number (${Re}_c$) of 200,000. Two scenarios were studied:…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-14 Yuning Wang , Marco Atzori , Ricardo Vinuesa

In aerodynamic design, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools has long relied on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Unsteady RANS (URANS) turbulence models. However, these methods face limitations in predicting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Francesco Mario D'Afiero , Renato Tognaccini , Gianluca Iaccarino

This study investigates the flow evolution around a sinusoidal pitching NACA 0012 airfoil, defined by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), undergoing deep dynamic stall using a wall-resolved large eddy simulation (LES)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-09 Giacomo Baldan , Alberto Guardone