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Self-similarity of wall-attached coherent structures in a turbulent channel at $Re_\tau=543$ is explored by means of resolvent analysis. In this modelling framework, coherent structures are understood to arise as a response of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-04-04 U. Karban , E. Martini , A. V. G. Cavalieri , L. Lesshafft , P. Jordan

Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool for studying coherent structures in turbulent flows. However, its application beyond canonical flows with symmetries that can be used to simplify the problem to inherently three-dimensional flows and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-23 Ali Farghadan , Eduardo Martini , Aaron Towne

The ability of linear stochastic response analysis to estimate coherent motions is investigated in turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds number Re$_\tau$ = 1007. The analysis is performed for spatial scales characteristic of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-02 Pierluigi Morra , Onofrio Semeraro , Dan S. Henningson , Carlo Cossu

In this work, we study the transient growth of the principal resolvent modes in the minimal flow unit using a reformulation of resolvent analysis in a time-localized wavelet basis. We target the most energetic spatial wavenumbers for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Eric Ballouz , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

This study employs resolvent analysis to explore the dynamics and coherent structures in the boundary layer of a foil that swims via a travelling wave undulation. A modified NACA foil shape is used together with undulatory kinematics to…

Resolvent analysis has demonstrated encouraging results for modeling coherent structures in jets when compared against their data-educed counterparts from high-fidelity large-eddy simulations (LES). We formulate resolvent analysis as an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Ethan Pickering , Aaron Towne , Peter Jordan , Tim Colonius

We present an optimization-based method to efficiently calculate accurate nonlinear models of Taylor vortex flow. We use the resolvent formulation of McKeon & Sharma (2010) to model these Taylor vortex solutions by treating the nonlinearity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Benedikt Barthel , Xiaojue Zhu , Beverley J. McKeon

The decomposition of hydrodynamic and acoustic components of cavity flows can aid the understanding of the flow-acoustic interaction, which produces a variety of adverse effects in applications. We apply the approach of combining the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 Qiong Liu , Datta Gaitonde

The application of control tools to complex flows frequently requires approximations, such as reduced-order models and/or simplified forcing assumptions, where these may be considered low-rank or defined in terms of simplified statistics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Eduardo Martini , Junoh Jung , André V. G. Cavalieri , Peter Jordan , Aaron Towne

In this study, we develop an efficient approach for approximating resolvent modes via spatial marching. Building on the methodology from Part 1, we leverage the ability of the projection-based formulation of the one-way Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-18 Georgios Rigas , Omar Kamal , Aaron Towne , Tim Colonius

A resolvent-based methodology is employed to obtain spatio--temporal estimates of turbulent pipe flow from probe measurements of wall shear-stress fluctuations. Direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES) of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Filipe Ramos do Amaral , André Valdetaro Gomes Cavalieri

We present a robust optimisation framework for computing invariant solutions of wall-bounded flows by recasting the Navier-Stokes equations as a variational problem as established in Ashtari and Schneider, JFM (2023). The approach minimises…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Thomas Burton , Sean Symon , Davide Lasagna

We utilize the externally forced linearized Navier-Stokes equations to study the receptivity of pre-transitional boundary layers to persistent sources of stochastic excitation. Stochastic forcing is used to model the effect of free-stream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-09 Wei Ran , Armin Zare , M. J. Philipp Hack , Mihailo R. Jovanović

We study the Reynolds number scaling and the geometric self-similarity of a gain-based, low-rank approximation to turbulent channel flows, determined by the resolvent formulation of McKeon & Sharma (2010), in order to obtain a description…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-22 Rashad Moarref , Ati S. Sharma , Joel A. Tropp , Beverley J. McKeon

We consider estimation and control of the cylinder wake at low Reynolds numbers. A particular focus is on the development of efficient numerical algorithms to design optimal linear feedback controllers when there are many inputs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Bo Jin , Simon J. Illingworth , Richard D. Sandberg

We develop an optimal resolvent-based estimator and controller to predict and attenuate unsteady vortex shedding fluctuations in the laminar wake of a NACA 0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of 6.5 degrees, chord-based Reynolds number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-13 Junoh Jung , Rutvij Bhagwat , Aaron Towne

We introduce the resolvent composition, a monotonicity-preserving operation between a linear operator and a set-valued operator, as well as the proximal composition, a convexity-preserving operation between a linear operator and a function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Patrick L. Combettes

We develop a perturbation-based frequency-response framework for analyzing amplification mechanisms that are central to subcritical routes to transition in wall-bounded shear flows. By systematically expanding the input-output dynamics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-04 Dušan Božić , Anubhav Dwivedi , Mihailo R. Jovanović

A modelling framework based on the resolvent analysis and machine learning is proposed to predict the turbulent energy in incompressible channel flows. In the framework, the optimal resolvent response modes are selected as the basis…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-11 Yitong Fan , Bo Chen , Weipeng Li

The impact of different linearisation and iterative solution strategies for fully-coupled pressure-based algorithms for compressible flows at all speeds is studied, with the aim of elucidating their impact on the performance of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Fabian Denner