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Patient-specific modeling of cardiovascular flows with high-fidelity is challenging due to its dependence on accurately estimated velocity boundary profiles, which are essential for precise simulations and directly influence wall shear…
We study small disturbances to the periodic, plane Couette flow in the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number $\textbf{Re}$. We prove that for sufficiently regular initial data of size $\epsilon \leq…
In this paper, a novel immersed boundary method is developed, validated, and applied. Through devising a second-order three-step flow reconstruction scheme, the proposed method is able to enforce the Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, and Cauchy…
The relation between the shape of the force driving a turbulent flow and the upper bound on the dimensionless dissipation factor $\beta$ is presented. We are interested in non-trivial (more than two wave numbers) forcing functions in a…
This paper proposes a simple new closure principle for turbulent shear flows. The turbulent flow field is divided into an outer and an inner region. The inner region is made up of a log-law region and a wall layer. The wall layer is viewed…
In this paper, we develop a stability threshold theorem for the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on the channel, supplemented with the no-slip boundary condition. The initial datum is close to the Couette flow in the following…
We have developed a three-dimensional (3D) spectral hydrodynamic code to study vortex dynamics in rotating, shearing, stratified systems (e.g. the atmosphere of gas giant planets, protoplanetary disks around newly forming protostars). The…
Variational turbulence is among the few approaches providing rigorous results in turbulence. In addition, it addresses a question of direct practical interest, namely the rate of energy dissipation. Unfortunately, only an upper bound is…
We study the vanishing dissipation limit of the three-dimensional (3D) compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations to the corresponding 3D full Euler equations. Our results are twofold. First, we prove that the 3D compressible…
We investigate the stability of the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations in the infinite channel $\mathbb{R}\times [-1,1]$ with the Navier-slip boundary condition. We show that if the initial perturbations $\omega^{in}$ around the Couette flow…
In this paper, we use the well-known background method to obtain a rigorous lower bound on the volume flow rate through a helical pipe driven by a pressure differential in the limit of large Reynolds number. As a consequence, we also obtain…
One of the crucial aspects of patient-specific blood flow simulations is to specify material parameters and boundary conditions. The choice of boundary conditions can have a substantial impact on the character of the flow. While no-slip is…
A model for the development of turbulent shear flows, created by non-uniform parallel flows in a confining channel, is used to identify the diffuser shape that maximises pressure recovery when the inflow is non-uniform. Wide diffuser angles…
Flow past a low pressure turbine blade in a cascade at $Re \approx 52000$ and angle of incidence $\alpha = 45.5^{0}$ is solved using a code developed in-house for solving 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. This code, named ANUROOP,…
We consider the $3$D problem of shape optimization of blood flows in moving domains. Such a geometry is adopted to take into account the modeling of rotating systems and blood pumps for instance. The blood flow is described by generalized…
In this paper, we establish the pseudospectral bound for the linearized operator of the Navier-Stokes equations around the 3D Kolmogorov flow. Using the pseudospectral bound and the wave operator method introduced in [LWZ], we prove the…
In finite-volume-based flow-simulations with free-surface waves, wave reflections at the domain boundaries can cause substantial errors in the results and must therefore be minimized. This can be achieved via `implicit relaxation zones',…
In this study, a shape optimization problem for the two-dimensional stationary Navier--Stokes equations with an artificial boundary condition is considered. The fluid is assumed to be flowing through a rectangular channel, and the…
This paper addresses the problem of obtaining low-order models of fluid flows for the purpose of designing robust feedback controllers. This is challenging since whilst many flows are governed by a set of nonlinear, partial…
We discuss artificial boundary conditions for stationary Navier-Stokes flows past bodies in the half-plane, for a range of low Reynolds numbers. When truncating the half-plane to a finite domain for numerical purposes, artificial boundaries…