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The Karman constant \kappa - widely used in atmospheric science and engineering turbulence modelling, and proposed by Prandtl in 1925 and von Karman in 1930 to describe the mean velocity of a turbulent wall-bounded flow - leads to a…
A celebrated universal aspect of wall-bounded turbulent flows is the von Karman log-law-of-the-wall, describing how the mean velocity in the streamwise direction depends on the distance from the wall. Although the log-law is known for more…
A direct numerical simulation of incompressible channel flow at $Re_\tau$ = 5186 has been performed, and the flow exhibits a number of the characteristics of high Reynolds number wall-bounded turbulent flows. For example, a region where the…
The logarithmic law of the wall, joining the inner, near-wall mean velocity profile (abbreviated MVP) in wall-bounded turbulent flows to the outer region, has been a permanent fixture of turbulence research for over hundred years, but there…
The trinity of so-called "canonical" wall-bounded turbulent flows, comprising the zero pressure gradient turbulent boundary layer, abbreviated ZPG TBL, turbulent pipe flow and channel/duct flows has continued to receive intense attention as…
A Lie-group based similarity theory is developed for both momentum and energy distributions in a turbulent pipe flow, leading to asymptotic logarithmic profiles of mean velocity and turbulent kinetic energy. Both channel and pipe data over…
The classical scaling theory of turbulent parallel flow provides a framework for the description of the mean velocity profile through two functions of one variable, traditionally named law of the wall and law of the wake, and a universal…
For nearly a century the universal logarithmic behaviour of the mean velocity profile in a parallel flow was a mainstay of turbulent fluid mechanics and its teaching. Yet many experiments and numerical simulations are not fit exceedingly…
Direct Numerical Simulations (DNSs) are one of the most powerful tools for studying turbulent flows. Even if achievable Reynolds numbers are lower than those obtained with experimental means, there is a clear advantage since the entire…
A strong coupling between convection and pulsations is known to play a major role in the disappearance of unstable modes close to the red edge of the classical Cepheid instability strip. As mean-field models of time-dependent convection…
We perform direct numerical simulations of an unstably stratified turbulent channel flow to address the effects of buoyancy on the boundary layer dynamics and mean field quantities. We systematically span a range of parameters in the space…
A major challenge in computation of engineering flows is to derive and improve turbulence models built on turbulence physics. Here, we present a physics-based modified $k-\omega$ equation for canonical wall bounded turbulent flows (boundary…
Wall turbulence has a sublayer where the mean wall-normal flux of the streamwise momentum is constant. Via the law of the wall, this mean flux is related to the wall-normal profile of the mean streamwise velocity. However, the momentum flux…
A direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a channel flow with one curved surface was performed at moderate Reynolds number (Re_tau = 395 at the inlet). The adverse pressure gradient was obtained by a wall curvature through a mathematical…
The study by Oberlack et al. (2006) consists of two main parts: a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent plane channel flow with streamwise rotation and a preceding Lie-group symmetry analysis on the two-point correlation equation…
The evolution with Reynolds number of the dissipation function, normalized by wall variables, is investigated using direct numerical simulation (DNS) databases for incompressible turbulent Poiseuille flow in a plane channel, at friction…
We seek possible statistical consequences of the way a forcing term is added to the Navier--Stokes equations in the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of incompressible channel flow. Simulations driven by constant flow rate, constant…
We study turbulent flows in a smooth straight pipe of circular cross--section up to $Re_{\tau} \approx 6000$ using direct--numerical-simulation (DNS) of the Navier--Stokes equations. The DNS results highlight systematic deviations from…
Numerical simulations of wall-turbulence using the restricted nonlinear (RNL) model generate realistic mean velocity profiles in plane Couette and channel flow at low Reynolds numbers. The results are less accurate at higher Re, and while a…
On the basis of various DNS of turbulent channel flows the following picture is proposed. (i) At a height y from the y = 0 wall, the Taylor microscale \lambda is proportional to the average distance l_s between stagnation points of the…