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This work investigates the orbital dynamics of a fluid-filled deformable prolate capsule in unbounded shear flow. The motion of the capsule is simulated using a model that incorporates shear elasticity, area dilatation, and bending…
We present pore-resolved direction numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows grazing over perforated plates, that closely resemble the acoustic liners found on aircraft engines. Our DNS explore a large parameter space including the…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is frequently used to support the design of naturally ventilated buildings; however, the model accuracy should be thoroughly assessed, ideally through validation with full-scale measurements. The present…
Over the past few years much progress has been made in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in its ability to accurately simulate the hydrodynamics associated with a deep-V monohull planing craft. This work has focused on not only predicting…
Numerical calculations of the 2-D steady incompressible driven cavity flow are presented. The Navier-Stokes equations in streamfunction and vorticity formulation are solved numerically using a fine uniform grid mesh of 601x601. The steady…
The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…
We propose the Siamese-flute method that measures the breath pressure and the acoustic sound in parallel. We fit a 6-DoF model to describe how the breath pressure affects the octave and the microtonal pitch bend, revealing the octave…
A finite element method for solving nonlinear differential equations on a grid, with potential applicability to computational fluid dynamics (CFD), is developed and tested. The current method facilitates the computation of solutions of a…
A two-phase, low-Mach-number flow solver is created and verified for variable-density liquid and gas with phase change. The interface is sharply captured using a split Volume-of-Fluid method generalized for a non-divergence-free liquid…
This paper presents the development of a density-based solver suitable for cavitating flows in the OpenFOAM framework. In this solver, the thermodynamic equilibrium mixture approach is adopted to model the presence of and the phase…
The paper is concerned with a node-based, gradient-driven, continuous adjoint two-phase flow procedure to optimize the shapes of free-floating vessels and discusses three topics. First, we aim to convey that elements of a Cahn-Hilliard…
Turbulent concentric coaxial (annular) pipe flow is numerically investigated using a stochastic one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model as a stand-alone tool. The dimensionally reduced ODT domain enables fully resolved numerical simulations…
The growth of computational resources in the past decades has expanded the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from the traditional fields of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to a number of new areas. Examples range from the…
We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…
Turbulent flow past an equilateral triangular cylinder with splitter plate inserted downstream is numerically tested for different gap ratios (0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2) and plate dimensions (0, 1, 1.5) on the flow field and heat transfer…
A simple multi-physical system for the potential flow of a fluid through a shroud in which a mechanical component, like a turbine vane, is placed, is modeled mathematically. We then consider a multi criteria shape optimization problem, when…
The present work investigates sidewall effects on the characteristics of three-dimensional (3D) compressible flows over a rectangular cavity with aspect ratios of $L/D=6$ and $W/D=2$ at $Re_D=10^4$ using large eddy simulations (LES). For…
We develop a cavity-based method which allows to extract thermodynamic properties from position information in hard-sphere/disk systems. So far, there are 'available-volume' and 'free-volume' methods. We add a third one, which we call…
The present work demonstrates the use of resolvent analysis to obtain physical insights for open-cavity flows. Resolvent analysis identifies the flow response to harmonic forcing, given a steady base state, in terms of the response and…
The French collaborative Trio4CLF project aims to understand and control the cryogenic cooling of amplifiers for high power (~1 PetaWatt) and high repetition rate (1-10 Hertz) lasers. In such amplifiers, the fluid evacuates the thermal…