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Recent studies have shown that entrainment effectively describes the behaviour of natural and forced separating/reattaching flows developing behind bluff bodies, potentially paving the way to new, scalable separation control strategies. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-12 Francesco Stella , Nicolas Mazellier , Pierric Joseph , Azeddine Kourta

Many experimental and numerical studies report a large reduction of the recirculation bubble in Backward-Facing Step flows or airfoils in stall situation when excited at the natural shedding frequency $f_0$. Through a simple experiment…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-19 Thomas Duriez , Jean-Luc Aider , Jose Eduardo Wesfreid , Guillermo Artana

Recently, Kami\'nski et al. [1] demonstrated that a two-dimensional streamwise waviness with carefully selected amplitude and period can be effectively used in postponement of a flow separation at high Reynolds number which is out of reach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Piotr Kamiński , Artur Tyliszczak , Witold Elsner , Paweł Niegodajew

Direct numerical simulations of spanwise-rotating turbulent channel flow with a parabolic bump on the bottom wall are employed to investigate the effects of rotation on flow separation. Four rotation rates of $Ro_b := 2\Omega H/U_b = \pm…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Benjamin S. Savino , Wen Wu

We have performed large-eddy simulations of turbulent separation control via impedance boundary conditions (IBCs) on a \nacafft airfoil in near-stalled conditions. The uncontrolled baseline flow is obtained for freestream Mach numbers of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-31 Julien Bodart , Carlo Scalo , Grigory Shelekhov , Laurent Joly

Breakup of a liquid jet in a high speed gaseous crossflow finds wide range of engineering and technological applications, especially in the combustors of the gas turbine engines in aerospace industry. In this study, we present…

We have developed a coupled level set and volume of fluid-based computational fluid dynamics model to analyze the droplet formation mechanism in a square flow-focusing microchannel. We demonstrate a flexible manipulation of droplet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-09 Somasekhara Goud Sontti , Arnab Atta

Over the last two decades, since explosive boiling has been widely used in industry, research on it has been increased. Thermal bubble jet printer, micro injectors and using in micro medicine for injection are some possible applications.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-18 Farrokhs Mobadersani , Hamid Safari , Taher Hajilounezhad , Pourak Kahroba

In many environmental flows, an air-water free surface interacts with a turbulent flow in the water phase. To mimic this situation, we propose an original experimental setup, based on the Randomly Actuated Synthetic Jet Array (RASJA)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Timothée Jamin , Michael Berhanu , Eric Falcon

The paper presents a high Reynolds number experimental study of turbulent boundary layer separation control on a convex plate using the wavy-wall method, which was initially proposed for a flat plate by Dr\'o\.zd\.z et al. 2021 (Exp Therm…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Artur Dróżdż , Mathias Romańczyk , Witold Elsner

The inverse Leidenfrost regime occurs when a heated object in relative motion with a liquid is surrounded by a stable vapour layer, drastically reducing the hydrodynamic drag at large Reynolds numbers due to a delayed separation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-17 J. Arrieta , A. Sevilla

The drag force acting on a body moving in a fluid has two components, friction drag due to fluid viscosity and form drag due to flow separation behind the body. When present, form drag is usually the most significant between the two and in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-12 J. -P. Mollicone , F. Battista , P. Gualtieri , C. M. Casciola

Three-dimensional turbulence simulations of a RFX-mod diverted plasma are performed in the presence of a biasing electrode. The simulations show a strong suppression of turbulent transport caused by the induced $\mathbf{E}\times\mathbf{B}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 M. Giacomin , N. Vianello , R. Cavazzana , S. Molisani , M. Spolaore , M. Zuin

We experimentally optimize mixing of a turbulent round jet using machine learning control (MLC) following Li et al (2017). The jet is manipulated with one unsteady minijet blowing in wall-normal direction close to the nozzle exit. The flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-13 Zhi Wu , Fan Dewei , Yu Zhou , Ruiying Li , Bernd R. Noack

We conduct systematic experiments to investigate the dynamics of liquid jet breakup and the resulting droplet size distribution, emphasizing the influence of liquid jet velocity and needle exit diameter. We precisely control jet formation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-12 Pavan Kumar Kirar , Nikhil Kumar , Kirti Chandra Sahu

We present the first unrestricted, three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamical calculations of the blob of gas associated with the jet producing a gamma-ray burst. We investigate the deceleration phase of the blob corresponding to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. K. Cannizzo , N. Gehrels , E. T. Vishniac

This study investigates the three-dimensionality of synthetic jet flow control over a NACA 0025 profile wing using horizontal and vertical smoke wire visualization. The stalled flow in the baseline case is visualized, providing insights…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-21 Adnan Machado , Kecheng Xu , Pierre E. Sullivan

This study numerically explores the flow physics associated with nanosecond pulsed plasma actuators to control shock-wave induced boundary-layer separation. By using two actuators, parallel and canted with respect to the main flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-04 Kiyoshi Kinefuchi , Andrey Y. Starikovskiy , Richard B. Miles

We experimentally explore the effectiveness of a rectangular orifice synthetic jet actuator for wall-bounded vortex destruction. Vortex flows near a boundary often present unforeseen or undesired forcing on a neighboring surface due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Frank A. Tricouros , Cameron Hoober , John C. Vaccaro , Tyler Van Buren

This study examines flow over a cranked {\lambda}-wing model with a sweep of {\Lambda}=60{\deg} of the inboard leading edge (LE) that changed to {\Lambda}=30{\deg} outboard of the crank. The study focuses on the liftoff of the inboard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-15 H. Kalyankar , L. Taubert , I. Wygnanski