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This work reports an experimental characterisation of the flow properties in a homogeneous bubble swarm rising at high-Reynolds-numbers within a homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flow. Both the gas volume fraction {\alpha} and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Elise Almeras , Varghese Mathai , Detlef Lohse , Chao Sun

This paper presents results from a flow visualization study of the wake structures behind solid spheres rising or falling freely in liquids under the action of gravity. These show remarkable differences to the wake structures observed…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Veldhuis , Arie Biesheuvel , Leen van Wijngaarden , Detlef Lohse

The separated flow over a wall-mounted bump geometry under harmonic oscillations of the inflow stream is investigated by direct numerical simulations. The bump geometry gives rise to streamwise pressure gradients similar to those…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-07 Himpu Marbona , Daniel Rodríguez , Alejandro Martínez-Cava , Eusebio Valero

In this study, we investigate the flow around a canonical blunt body, specifically a D-shaped body of width $D$, in a closed water channel. Our goal is to explore near-wake flow modifications when a series of rigid and flexible plates…

The dynamics of entrainment of finite-size heavy particles in a turbulent open channel flow over a smooth surface are analyzed. Three types of simulations, namely with freely moving, rotation-constrained, and spanwise-motion-constrained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-28 Tatia Bzikadze , Markus Weyrauch , Markus Uhlmann

The paper gives experimental observations on the hypersonic flow past an axisymmetric flat-face cylinder with a protruding sharp-tip spike at a freestream Mach number of $M_\infty = 8.16$ at two different freestream Reynolds numbers based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Mohammed Ibrahim , R. Sriram , S. K. Karthick , G. Jagadeesh

Linear modal instabilities of flow over finite-span untapered wings have been investigated numerically at Reynolds number 400, at a range of angles of attack and sweep on two wings having aspect ratios 4 and 8. Base flows have been…

Turbulent flow over a rounded broad-crested weir is investigated by means of detached eddy simulation (DES) and large eddy simulation (LES) with special emphasis on the interaction of coherent vortex structures with free-surface. In order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. Anil Kizilaslan , Elif Deniz Atlas , Huseyin Yaban , Ender Demirel

Large eddy simulations (LES) are employed to investigate the role of time-varying currents on the form drag and vortex dynamics of submerged 3D topography in a stratified rotating environment. The current is of the form $U_c+U_t \sin(2\pi…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-01 Pranav Puthan , Geno Pawlak , Sutanu Sarkar

We analyse the flow curves of a two-dimensional assembly of granular particles which are interacting via frictional contact forces. For packing fractions slightly below jamming, the fluid undergoes a large scale instability, implying a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-22 Shibu Saw , Mathias Grob , Annette Zippelius , Claus Heussinger

We investigate the global frequency selection of two-dimensional vortex shedding in the flat plate wake. The analysis is based on the mean flow velocity profiles obtained from experimental measurements carried out for two values of Reynolds…

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 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

The high-Reynolds-number wake of a slender body with a turbulent boundary layer is investigated using a hybrid simulation. The wake generator is a 6:1 prolate spheroid and the Reynolds number based on the diameter $D$ is $Re = 10^5$. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 J. L. Ortiz-Tarin , S. Nidhan , S. Sarkar

This work is dedicated to studying the influence of yaw angle on the wake characteristics of a 2.5 MW utility-scale wind turbine using large-eddy simulations with the turbine's blades and nacelle parameterized as actuator surfaces. Four…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-30 Zhaobin Li , Xiaolei Yang

A delayed detached eddy simulation (DDES) of an overexpanded nozzle flow with shock-induced separation is carried out at a Reynolds number equal to 1.7 10^7. The flow unsteadiness, characterised by self-sustained shock oscillations, induces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 E. Martelli , L. Saccoccio , P. P. Ciottoli , C. E. Tinney , W. J. Baars , M. Bernardini

Particles suspended in turbulent flows are affected by the turbulence and at the same time act back on the flow. The resulting coupling can give rise to rich variability in their dynamics. Here we report experimental results from an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Varghese Mathai , Vivek N. Prakash , Jon Brons , Chao Sun , Detlef Lohse

The wake of a flexible foil undergoing pitching oscillations in a low-speed hydrodynamic tunnel is used to examine the effect of chord-wise foil flexibility in the dynamical features of flapping-based propulsion. We compare the regime…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-06 Catherine Marais , Benjamin Thiria , José Eduardo Wesfreid , Ramiro Godoy-Diana

The interaction between turbulent axisymmetric wakes plays an important role in many industrial applications, notably in the modelling of wind farms. While the non-equilibrium high Reynolds number scalings present in the wake of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-29 M. Obligado , S. Klein , J. C. Vassilicos

Turbulence generation mechanisms in stratified, rotating flows past three-dimensional (3D) topography remain underexplored, particularly in submesoscale (SMS) regimes critical to geophysical applications. Using turbulence-resolving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Jinyuan Liu , Pranav Puthan , Sutanu Sarkar