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Here we report the measurements of two-dimensional (2-D) spectra of the streamwise velocity ($u$) in a high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layer. A novel experiment employing multiple hot-wire probes was carried out at friction Reynolds…

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Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) provides a principled approach to extract physically interpretable spatial modes from time-resolved flow field data, along with a linear model for how the amplitudes of these modes evolve in time. Recently,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-29 Aditya G. Nair , Benjamin Strom , Bingni W. Brunton , Steven L. Brunton

We develop a new methodology to assess the streamwise inclination angles (SIAs) of the wall-attached eddies populating the logarithmic region with a given wall-normal height. To remove the influences originating from other scales on the SIA…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-01 Cheng Cheng , Wei Shyy , Lin Fu

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

We employ a resolvent-based methodology to estimate velocity and pressure fluctuations within turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds numbers of approximately 180, 550 and 1000 using measurements of shear stress and pressure at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Filipe R. Amaral , André V. G. Cavalieri , Eduardo Martini , Peter Jordan , Aaron Towne

Integration of physics principles with data-driven methods has attracted great attention in recent few years. In this study, a physics-informed dynamic mode decomposition (piDMD) method, where the mass conservation law is integrated with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-07 Dandan Li , Bidan Zhao , Shuai Lu , Junwu Wang

We study localised exact coherent structures in plane Poiseuille flow that are relative periodic orbits. They are obtained from extended states in smaller, periodically continued domains, by increasing the length to obtain streamwise…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-01 Stefan Zammert , Bruno Eckhardt

We develop a data-driven characterization of the pilot-wave hydrodynamic system in which a bouncing droplet self-propels along the surface of a vibrating bath. We consider drop motion in a confined one-dimensional geometry, and apply the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 J. Nathan Kutz , Andre Nachbin , Peter J. Baddoo , John W. M. Bush

Continual perturbations to the flow field in the square lid driven cavity can significantly impact both its stability and the dynamic characteristics of the system. In this study, the effect of these perturbations are analyzed via…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-09 John Shelton , Nitin Katiki , Morakinyo Adesemowo

The recent theoretical discovery of families of travelling wave solutions in pipe flow at Reynolds numbers lower than the transitional range naturally raises the question of their relevance to the turbulent transition process. Here a series…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. R. Kerswell , O. R. Tutty

The simulation of turbulent flow requires many degrees of freedom to resolve all the relevant times and length scales. However, due to the dissipative nature of the Navier-Stokes equations, the long-term dynamics are expected to lie on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-15 C. Ricardo Constante-Amores , Alec J. Linot , Michael D. Graham

We study the global, i.e. radially averaged, high Reynolds number (asymptotic) scaling of streamwise turbulence intensity squared defined as ${I^2=\overline{u^2}/U^2}$, where $u$ and $U$ are the fluctuating and mean velocities, respectively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-29 Nils T. Basse

We show that the statistics of an edge type variable in natural images exhibits self-similarity properties which resemble those of local energy dissipation in turbulent flows. Our results show that extended self-similarity remarkably holds…

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Natural ventilation can play an important role towards preventing the spread of airborne diseases in indoor environments. However, quantifying natural ventilation flow rates is a challenging task due to significant variability in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-04 Yunjae Hwang , Catherine Gorlé

An experimental study was conducted in the CICLoPE long-pipe facility to investigate the correlation between wall-pressure and turbulent velocity fluctuations in the logarithmic region, at high friction Reynolds numbers ($4\,794 \lesssim…

Even though the analysis of unsteady 2D flow fields is challenging, fluid mechanics experts generally have an intuition on where in the simulation domain specific features are expected. Using this intuition, showing similar regions enables…

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High-pressure transcritical fluid flows are central to modern energy and propulsion systems. A key challenge arises in confined configurations, where optimizing performance requires a detailed understanding of the coupled hydrodynamic and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 M. Bernades , J. M. O. Massey , B. J. McKeon , L. Jofre

A promising and cost-effective method for numerical simulation of high Re wall-bounded flows is wall-modeled large-eddy simulation. Most wall models are formulated from the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS). These RANS-based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-08 Ahmed Elnahhas , Adrián Lozano-Durán , Parviz Moin

Identification of coherent structures is an essential step to describe and model turbulence generation mechanisms in wall-bounded flows. To this end we present a clustering method based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 Mohamed Frihat , Bérengère Podvin , Lionel Mathelin , Yann Fraigneau , François Yvon

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…

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