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As a continuum model for compressible fluid flows, Howard Brenner proposed the so-called Brenner-Navier-Stokes-Fourier(BNSF) system that improves some flaws of the Navier-Stokes-Fourier(NSF) system. For BNSF system, the volume velocity…
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The extraction of spatio-temporal coherence in high-dimensional, chaotic, non-linear dynamical systems, such as turbulent flows, remains a fundamental challenge in physics, mathematics and engineering. In this work, we employ Shannon…
The Brenner-Navier-Stokes-Fourier (BNSF) system, introduced by Howard Brenner, was developed to address some deficiencies in the classical Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, based on the concept of volume velocity. We consider the…
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the main approach to analyzing flow field. However, the convergence and accuracy depend largely on mathematical models of flow, numerical methods, and time consumption. Deep learning-based analysis of…
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We present a Lagrangian analysis of turbulent blood flow in the human left heart using high-fidelity simulations based on a patient-specific anatomical model. Leveraging a fully coupled fluid-structure-electrophysiology interaction (FSEI)…
We explore the mechanisms of heat transfer in a turbulent constant heat flux-driven Rayleigh-B\'enard convection flow, which exhibits a hierarchy of flow structures from granules to supergranules. Our computational framework makes use of…