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We derived a dispersion relation of a surface wave at a rough metal-air interface. In contrast to previous publications, we assumed that an intrinsic surface impedance due to a finite electric conductivity of the metal can be of the same…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-07 Igor Kotelnikov , Gennady Stupakov

The present study provides a detailed description of the forces on an ellipsoidal particle in the vicinity of the rough wall. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are performed using body-fitted mesh to estimate the drag, lift, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Atul Manikrao Bhagat , Partha Sarathi Goswami

The wave spectral properties in the centimeter to decameter (cmDm) wavelength range is of great interest to ocean remote sensing and studies of ocean surface processes including the surface roughness, air-sea energy and momentum exchanges,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Paul A. Hwang

Wave phenomena in vibrofluidized dry and partially wet granular materials confined in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry are investigated with numerical simulations considering individual particles as hard spheres. Short ranged cohesive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-06 Kai Huang

Motivated by the discrepancy between satellite observations of coherent westward propagating surface features and Rossby wave theory, this paper revisits the planetary wave propagation problem, taking into account the effects of lateral…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Xiao Xiao , K. Shafer Smith , Shane R. Keating

Satellite altimetry is a unique way for direct observations of sea surface dynamics. This is however limited to the surface-constrained geostrophic component of sea surface velocities. Ageostrophic dynamics are however expected to be…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Ronan Fablet , Bertrand Chapron , Julien Le Sommer , Florian Sévellec

One of the main statistical features of near-neutral atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) turbulence is the positive vertical velocity skewness $Sk_w$ above the roughness sublayer or the buffer region in smooth-walls. The $Sk_w$ variations are…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Elia Buono , Gabriel Katul , Michael Heisel , Davide Poggi , Cosimo Peruzzi , Davide Vettori , Costantino Manes

The accurate quantification of wall-shear stress dynamics is of substantial importance for various applications in fundamental and applied research, spanning areas from human health to aircraft design and optimization. Despite significant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Esther Lagemann , Julia Roeb , Steven L. Brunton , Christian Lagemann

Waves of spanwise velocity imposed at the walls of a plane turbulent channel flow are studied by Direct Numerical Simulations. We consider sinusoidal waves of spanwise velocity which vary in time and are modulated in space along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Quadrio , P. Ricco , C. Viotti

Surface roughness elements are commonly used in wind tunnel testing to hasten the laminar-turbulent transition of the boundary layer in model tests to mimic the aerodynamic effects present in the full-scale application. These devices can…

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method will still play a vital role in the following several decade in aerospace engineering. Although RANS models are widely used, empiricism and large discrepancies between models reduce the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Weiwei Zhang , Linyang Zhu , Yilang Liu , Jiaqing Kou

Turbulent flow over a surface with streamwise-elongated rough and smooth stripes is studied by means of direct numerical simulation (DNS) in a periodic plane open channel with fully resolved roughness. The goal is to understand how the mean…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-23 A. Stroh , K. Schäfer , B. Frohnapfel , P. Forooghi

Spatially developing round jet flows are fundamental to numerous engineering applications. This letter applies the wave-particle turbulence simulation (WPTS) method, a recently developed multiscale approach, to simulate a spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

We present an experimental realisation of spatial spanwise forcing in a turbulent boundary layer flow, aimed at reducing the frictional drag. The forcing is achieved by a series of spanwise running belts, running in alternating spanwise…

During the wear process of surfaces in sliding friction, there is a running-in period during which the topography of surfaces changes with time before reaching the steady wear regime. In the steady wear regime, the statistical parameters…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Noël Brunetière

Impact loads from waves on vessels and coastal structures are complex and may involve wave breaking, which has made these loads difficult to estimate numerically or empirically. Results from previous experiments have shown a wide range of…

Recently, Kami\'nski et al. [1] demonstrated that a two-dimensional streamwise waviness with carefully selected amplitude and period can be effectively used in postponement of a flow separation at high Reynolds number which is out of reach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Piotr Kamiński , Artur Tyliszczak , Witold Elsner , Paweł Niegodajew

Shallow flows are common in natural and human-made environments. Even for simple rectangular shallow reservoirs, recent laboratory experiments show that the developing flow fields are particularly complex, involving large-scale turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-13 Daniel Valero , Daniel B. Bung , Sebastien Erpicum , Yann Peltier , Benjamin Dewals

We present an efficient neural-based approach to estimate the instantaneous flow field around an airfoil from limited surface pressure measurements. The model, denoted SNN-POD, relies on two independent shallow neural networks to predict…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-27 Quentin Bucquet , Bérengère Podvin , Caroline Braud , Emmanuel Guilmineau

In this paper, we present a semiclassical description of surface waves or modes in an elastic medium near a boundary, in spatial dimension three. The medium is assumed to be essentially stratified near the boundary at some scale comparable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Maarten de Hoop , Alexei Iantchenko , Gen Nakamura , Jian Zhai