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This paper presents a method to solve the modal form of the linearised one-way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) equations for investigating disturbance development in developing subsonic and supersonic boundary layers. The modal framework offers…
Spatial marching methods, in which the flow state is spatially evolved in the downstream direction, can be used to produce low-cost models of flows containing a slowly varying direction, such as mixing layers, jets, and boundary layers. The…
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…
It is a classical problem in fluid dynamics about the stability and instability of different hydrodynamic patterns in various physical settings, in particular in the high Reynolds number limit of laminar flow with boundary layer. However,…
We introduce an extended variational framework for nonlinear SPDEs with unbounded noise, defining three different solution types of increasing strength along with criteria to establish their existence. The three notions can be understood as…
Non-linear entropy stability and a summation-by-parts framework are used to derive entropy stable wall boundary conditions for the three-dimensional compressible Navier--Stokes equations. A semi-discrete entropy estimate for the entire…
Large-scale turbulent structures in the form of coherent wavepackets play a significant role in the generation of prominent shallow angle noise radiation of jets. Economical prediction tools often model these wavepackets in the…
This article introduces, and reviews recent work using, a simple optimisation technique for analysing the nonlinear stability of a state in a dynamical system. The technique can be used to identify the most efficient way to disturb a system…
We investigate generalized Navier-Stokes (GNS) equations that couple nonlinear advection with a generic linear instability. This analytically tractable minimal model for fluid flows driven by internal active stresses has recently been shown…
We propose and study a number of layer methods for stochastic Navier-Stokes equations (SNSE) with spatial periodic boundary conditions and additive noise. The methods are constructed using conditional probabilistic representations of…
We advance the computation of physical modal expansions for unsteady incompressible flows. Point of departure is a linearization of the Navier-Stokes equations around its fixed point in a frequency domain formulation. While the most…
Global stability analysis and direct numerical simulation (DNS) are performed to study boundary layer flows with an isolated roughness element. Wall-attached cuboids with aspect ratios $\eta=1$ and $\eta=0.5$ are investigated for fixed…
This paper investigates the two-dimensional stochastic steady-state Navier-Stokes(NS) equations with additive random noise. We introduce an innovative splitting method that decomposes the stochastic NS equations into a deterministic NS…
Development of mass-source function based numerical wave tank (NWT) algorithms in the Navier-Stokes (NSE) framework is impeded by multiple design issues such as: (a) optimization of a number of variables characterizing the source region,…
Large-eddy simulations of a flat-plate boundary layer, without a leading edge, subject to multiple levels of incoming free stream turbulence are considered in the present work. Within an input-output model where non-linear terms of the…
The dynamics of transitional flows are governed by an interplay between the non-normal linear dynamics and quadratic nonlinearity in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In this work, we propose a framework for nonlinear stability…
In this paper, we study the receptivity of non-modal perturbations in hypersonic boundary layers over a blunt wedge subject to freestream vortical, entropy and acoustic perturbations. Due to the absence of the Mack-mode instability and the…
In this paper, we investigate the instability of the trivial steady states to the incompressible viscous fluid with Navier-slip boundary conditions. For the linear instability, the existence of infinitely many normal mode solutions to the…
We study the stability properties of boundary layer-type shear flows for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of small viscosity $0<\nu\ll 1$. When the streamwise and spanwise velocity profiles are linearly independent…
In this paper, we consider the large time behavior of planar shock wave for 3-D compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations (CNS) in half space. Providing the strength of the shock wave and initial perturbations are small, we proved the…