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A wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) of the fluid flow around a 30P30N airfoil is conducted at a Reynolds number of Rec=750,000 and an angle of attack (AoA) of 9 degrees. The simulation results are validated against experimental data…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-11 Ricard Montalà , Benet Eiximeno , Arnau Miró , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ivette Rodriguez

We derive a novel and rigorous correction to the classical Reynolds lubrication approximation for fluids with viscosity depending upon the pressure. Our analysis shows that the pressure dependence of viscosity leads to additional nonlinear…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-11-16 Tom Gustafsson , K. R. Rajagopal , R. Stenberg , J. Videman

Recently there has been an increasing interest for a better understanding of ultra low Reynolds number flows. In this context we present a new setup which allows to efficiently solve the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vincent Heuveline , Peter Wittwer

The lid-driven cavity flow is a well-known benchmark problem for the validation of new numerical methods and techniques. In experimental and numerical studies with viscoelastic fluids in such lid-driven flows, purely-elastic instabilities…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-08 R. G. Sousa , R. J. Poole , A. M. Afonso , F. T. Pinho , P. J. Oliveira , A. Morozov , M. A. Alves

Understanding the flow dynamics of non-Newtonian fluids is crucial in various engineering, industrial, and biomedical applications. However, the existing generalized Reynolds number formulations for non-Newtonian fluids have limited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-04 Coskun Bilgi , Niema M Pahlevan

Unstable equilibrium solutions in a homogeneous shear flow with sinuous symmetry are numerically found in large-eddy simulations (LES) with no kinetic viscosity. The small-scale properties are determined by the mixing length scale $l_S$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Atsushi Sekimoto , Javier Jiménez

This study examines the stability of a flexible material interface between two fluids of the same viscosity in interaction with a free surface. When the layers are motionless, we provide evidence for the onset of a novel instability by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-05 Joris Labarbe

Inspired by the lubrication framework, in this paper we consider a micropolar fluid flow through a rough thin domain, whose thickness is considered as the small parameter $\varepsilon$ while the roughness at the bottom is defined by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Matthieu Bonnivard , Igor Pažanin , Francisco J. Suárez-Grau

An analytic, asymptotic approximation of the nonlinear steady-state equations for viscoelastic creeping flow, modeled by the Oldroyd-B equations with polymer stress diffusion, is derived. Near the extensional stagnation point the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-14 Joseph A. Biello , Becca Thomases

We analyze the effect of a rough surface on shear thinning and shear thickening fluids, modeled by power law stress tensors. The roughness is modeled by a small wavelength and small amplitude oscillation, parametrized by eps. We study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-05 David Gérard-Varet , Aneta Wróblewska-Kaminska

We study the large time behaviour of a spherically symmetric motion of out-flowing isentropic and compressible viscous gas. The fluid occupies an unbounded exterior domain in $\mathbb{R}^n \; (n \ge 2)$, and it flows out from an inner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yucong Huang , Shinya Nishibata

Boundary layers in turbulent flows require fine grid spacings near the walls which depend on the choice of turbulence model. To satisfy these requirements a semi-structured mesh is generally used in this area with orthogonal and layered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-06 Kedar C. Chitale , Michel Rasquin , Onkar Sahni , Mark S. Shephard , Kenneth E. Jansen

We present a generalized form of open boundary conditions, and an associated numerical algorithm, for simulating incompressible flows involving open or outflow boundaries. The generalized form represents a family of open boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-16 Suchuan Dong , Jie Shen

Edges are abundant when elastic solids glide in guiding rails or fluids are contained in vessels. We here address induced displacements in elastic solids or small-scale flows in viscous fluids in the vicinity of one such edge. For this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-25 Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider , Andreas M. Menzel

The aim of this Letter is to characterize the flow regimes of suspensions of finite-size rigid particles in a viscous fluid at finite inertia. We explore the system behavior as function of the particle volume fraction and the Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Iman Lashgari , Francesco Picano , Wim-Paul Breugem , Luca Brandt

We show the existence of weak solutions to the fluid-structure interaction problem of a largely deforming viscoelastic bulk solid with a viscous fluid governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In contrast to previous works,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Antonín Češík , Malte Kampschulte , Sebastian Schwarzacher

This paper concerns a diffuse interface model for the flow of two incompressible viscoelastic fluids in a bounded domain. More specifically, the fluids are assumed to be macroscopically immiscible, but with a small transition region, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Yadong Liu , Dennis Trautwein

We present an extended version of an invited talk given on the International Conference "Turbulent Mixing and Beyond". The dynamical and statistical description of stably stratified turbulent boundary layers with the important example of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-18 Victor S. L'vov , Itamar Procaccia , Oleksii Rudenko

A robust finite volume method for viscoelastic flow analysis on general unstructured meshes is developed. It is built upon a general-purpose stabilization framework for high Weissenberg number flows. The numerical framework provides full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Holger Marschall , Christian Kunkelmann , Dieter Bothe

At sufficiently high Reynolds numbers, shear-flow turbulence close to a wall acquires universal properties. When length and velocity are rescaled by appropriate characteristic scales of the turbulent flow and thereby measured in \emph{inner…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-18 Sajjad Azimi , Tobias M. Schneider