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We experimentally study the influence of wall roughness on bubble drag reduction in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow, i.e.\ the flow between two concentric, independently rotating cylinders. We measure the drag in the system for the cases with…

The widest spanwise scales in turbulent channel flows are studied through the use of three periodic channel-flow simulations at friction Reynolds number $\mathrm{Re}_{\tau}=550$. The length and height of the channels are the same in all…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-07 Ramón Pozuelo , André V. G. Cavalieri , Philipp Schlatter , Ricardo Vinuesa

High-fidelity large-eddy simulations of the flow around two rectangular obstacles are carried out at a Reynolds number of 10,000 based on the free-stream velocity and the obstacle height. The incoming flow is a developed turbulent boundary…

This study utilizes Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to investigate the impact of longitudinal triangular riblets on the laminar-to-turbulent transition in boundary layer flow. Five cases are examined: one involving a flat plate and four with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ranjan Kushwaha , S. Sarkar , Gautam Biswas

We present an experimental study on the drag reduction by polymers in Taylor-Couette turbulence at Reynolds numbers ($Re$) ranging from $4\times 10^3$ to $2.5\times 10^4$. In this $Re$ regime, the Taylor vortex is present and accounts for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yi-Bao Zhang , Yaning Fan , Jinghong Su , Heng-Dong Xi , Chao Sun

This article proposes a Reynolds number scaling of the required grid points to perform wall-modeled LES of turbulent flows encountering separation off a solid surface. Based on comparisons between the various time scales in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Rahul Agrawal , Sanjeeb Bose , Parviz Moin

The supernova-driven interstellar medium in star-forming galaxies has Reynolds numbers of the order of $10^{6}$ or even larger. We study, by means of adaptive mesh refinement hydro- and magnetohydrodynamical simulations that cover the full…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. de Avillez , D. Breitschwerdt

It has previously been shown that by increasing the Reynolds number across a channel by spatially varying the viscosity does not cause an immediate change in the size of turbulent structures and a delay is in fact observed in both wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-11 Victor Coppo Leite , Elia Merzari

Turbulence is most commonly associated with high Reynolds number flow, however the framework of turbulent dynamics has been conceptually extended to many other fields, such as magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, elastic wave turbulence in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-05 Wilhelm Sunde Lie , Ingve Simonsen , Paul Gunnar Dommersnes

We present a study of spectral laws for helical turbulence in the presence of solid body rotation up to Reynolds numbers Re~1*10^5 and down to Rossby numbers Ro~3*10^-3. The forcing function is a fully helical flow that can also be viewed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-18 J. Baerenzung , D. Rosenberg , P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

Modeling of wall-bounded turbulent flows is still an open problem in classical physics, with only modest progress made in the last few decades beyond the so-called `log law', which describes only the intermediate region in wall-bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-31 Fangying Song , George Em Karniadakis

Turbulent flows of viscoplastic fluids at high Reynolds numbers have been investigated recently with direct numerical simulations (DNS) but experimental results have been limited. For this reason, we carry out an experimental study of fully…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-19 Rodrigo S. Mitishita , Jordan A. MacKenzie , Gwynn J. Elfring , Ian A. Frigaard

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

Recent developments of the weak turbulence theory applied to internal waves exhibit a power-law solution of the kinetic energy equation close to the oceanic Garrett \& Munk spectrum, confirming weakly nonlinear wave interactions as a likely…

To study the Reynolds stresses which describe turbulent momentum transport from turbulence affected by large-scale shear and rotation. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are used to study turbulent transport under the influences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 J. E. Snellman , P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , A. J. Liljeström

In most settings, from international pipelines to home water supplies, the drag caused by turbulence raises pumping costs many times higher than if the flow were laminar. Drag reduction has therefore long been an aim of high priority. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-14 Ashley P. Willis , Yongyun Hwang , Carlo Cossu

Direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a channel with one rigid and one viscoelastic wall are performed. An Eulerian-Eulerian model is adopted with a level-set approach to identify the fluid-compliant material interface. Focus is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-03 Amir Esteghamatian , Joseph Katz , Tamer A. Zaki

(abridged) Context: Turbulent diffusion of large-scale flows and magnetic fields play major roles in many astrophysical systems. Aims: Our goal is to compute turbulent viscosity and magnetic diffusivity, relevant for diffusing large-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Petri J. Käpylä , Matthias Rheinhardt , Axel Brandenburg , Maarit J. Käpylä

The aim of the present work is to investigate the mechanisms of broadband trailing-edge noise generation to improve prediction tools and control strategies. We focus on a NACA 0012 airfoil at 3 degrees angle of attack and chord Reynolds…

The goal of the present study is: (i) to demonstrate the two-dimensional nature of the elasto-inertial instability in elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT), (ii) to identify the role of the bi-dimensional instability in three-dimensional EIT…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-07 S. Sid , Y. Dubief , V. E. Terrapon