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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 combine three-dimensional (3D) large-eddy simulations (LES) and resolvent analysis to design active separation control techniques on a NACA 0012 airfoil. Spanwise-periodic flows over the airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 Chi-An Yeh , Kunihiko Taira

The resolvent formulation of the Navier$\text{--}$Stokes equations gives a means for the characterization and prediction of features of turbulent flows$\text{---}$such as statistics, structures and their nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-28 Scott T. M. Dawson , Beverley J. McKeon

We employ a resolvent-based methodology to estimate velocity and pressure fluctuations within turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds numbers of approximately 180, 550 and 1000 using measurements of shear stress and pressure at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Filipe R. Amaral , André V. G. Cavalieri , Eduardo Martini , Peter Jordan , Aaron Towne

The effects of Reynolds number across $Re=1000$, $2500$, $5000$, and $10000$ on separated flow over a two-dimensional NACA0012 airfoil at an angle of attack of $\alpha=14^\circ$ are investigated through the biglobal resolvent analysis. We…

The flows around a NACA 0018 airfoil at a Reynolds number of 10250 and angles of attack of alpha = 0 (A0) and alpha = 10 (A10) are modelled using resolvent analysis and limited experimental measurements obtained from particle image…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sean Symon , Denis Sipp , Beverley J. McKeon

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

Coherent turbulent wave-packet structures in a jet at Reynolds number 460000 and Mach number 0.4 are extracted from experimental measurements and are modeled as linear fluctuations around the mean flow. The linear model is based on harmonic…

This paper extends the resolvent formalism for wall turbulence proposed by McKeon and Sharma(2010) to account for the effect of streamwise-constant riblets. Under the resolvent formulation, the Navier-Stokes equations are interpreted as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-15 Andrew Chavarin , Mitul Luhar

Experimental mean flows are commonly used to study wall-bounded turbulence. However, these measurements are often unable to resolve the near-wall region and thus introduce ambiguity in the velocity closest to the wall. This poses a source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Salvador Rey Gomez , Tomek Jaroslawski

We develop a method to estimate space-time flow statistics from a limited set of known data. While previous work has focused on modeling spatial or temporal statistics independently, space-time statistics carry fundamental information about…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Aaron Towne , Adrian Lozano-Duran , Xiang Yang

Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing turbulent flows and in particular provides an approximation of coherent flow structures. Despite recent algorithmic advances, computing resolvent modes for flows with more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 Aaron Towne , Georgios Rigas , Ethan Pickering , 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

Recent simulations indicate that streamwise-preferential porous materials have the potential to reduce drag in wall-bounded turbulent flows(Gomez-de-Segura & Garcia-Mayoral 2019). This paper extends the resolvent formulation to study the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-26 Andrew Chavarin , Garazi Gomez-de-Segura , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral , Mitul Luhar

This work introduces a formulation of resolvent analysis that uses wavelet transforms rather than Fourier transforms in time. This allows resolvent analysis to be extended to turbulent flows with non-stationary means in addition to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-07 Eric Ballouz , Barbara Lopez-Doriga , Scott T. M. Dawson , H. Jane Bae

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

A new resolvent-based method is developed to predict the space-time properties of the flow field. To overcome the deterioration of the prediction accuracy with the increasing distance between the measurements and predictions in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-17 Anjia Ying , Tian Liang , Zhigang Li , Lin Fu

Use of appropriate initialization to warm-start Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of turbulent flow can facilitate convergence and lead to efficient use of computational resources. In this work, a method to model downstream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-27 Kazuko W. Fuchi , Eric M. Wolf , Christopher R. Schrock , Philip S. Beran

We combine resolvent-mode decomposition with techniques from convex optimization to optimally approximate velocity spectra in a turbulent channel. The velocity is expressed as a weighted sum of resolvent modes that are dynamically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-22 R. Moarref , M. R. Jovanovic , J. A. Tropp , A. S. Sharma , B. J. McKeon

The interaction between shear driven turbulence and stratification is a key process in a wide array of geophysical flows with spatio-temporal scales that span many orders of magnitude. A quick numerical model prediction based on external…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-18 M. A. Ahmed , H. J. Bae , A. F. Thompson , B. J. McKeon
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