Related papers: Turbulent boundary layer equations
The decay of turbulent and laminar oblique bands in the lower transitional range of plane Couette flow is studied by means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier--Stokes equations. We consider systems that are extended enough for…
Analytical solutions in fluid dynamics can be used to elucidate the physics of complex flows and to serve as test cases for numerical models. In this work, we present the analytical solution for the acoustic boundary layer that develops…
We consider incompressible flows between two transversely vibrating solid walls and construct an asymptotic expansion of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in the limit when both the amplitude of vibrations and the thickness of the…
This paper concerns the construction of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes system. We study a single layer of viscous fluid in a strip-like domain that is bounded below by a flat rigid surface and…
The problems of numerical modeling of viscous incompressible fluid flows are widely considered in computational fluid dynamics. Stationary solutions of boundary value problems for the Navier-Stokes equations exist at large Reynolds numbers,…
In this visualisation the instantaneous local velocity is expressed in terms of four components to capture the development of and interactions between coherent structures in turbulent flows. It is then possible to isolate the terms linked…
We provide a mathematical analysis of the `diffusion-free' boundary conditions recently introduced by Lin and Kerswell for the numerical treatment of inertial waves in a fluid contained in a rotating sphere. We consider here the full…
A central obstacle to understanding the route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows is that the flows are composed of complex, highly fluctuating, and strongly nonlinear states. In the case of pipe flow, models have deepened our understanding…
The inflow problem of full compressible Navier-Stokes equations is considered on the half line $(0,+\infty)$. Firstly, we give the existence (or non-existence) of the boundary layer solution to the inflow problem when the right end state…
A finite-volume method for the steady, compressible, reacting, turbulent Navier-Stokes equations is developed by using a steady-state preserving splitting scheme for the stiff source terms in chemical reaction. Laminar and turbulent…
In $1904$, Prandtl introduced his famous boundary layer in order to describe the behavior of solutions of incompressible Navier Stokes equations near a boundary as the viscosity goes to $0$. His Ansatz was that the solution of Navier Stokes…
This paper is concerned with the validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory in the inviscid limit of the steady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which is an extension of the pioneer paper (Y. Guo et al., 2017, Ann. PDE) from a…
We find actual evidence, relying upon vorticity time series taken in a high Reynolds number atmospheric experiment, that to a very good approximation the surface boundary layer flow may be described, in a statistical sense and under certain…
Nonlinear convection, the source of turbulence in fluid flows, may hold the key to stabilizing turbulence by solving a specific cubic polynomial equation. We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a two-dimensional channel.…
We investigate the stability of boundary layer solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider shear flow solutions of Prandtl type : $$ u^\nu(t,x,y) \, = \, \big (U^E(t,y) +…
We study steady vortex sheet solutions of the Navier-Stokes in the limit of vanishing viscosity at fixed energy flow. We refer to this as the turbulent limit. These steady flows correspond to a minimum of the Euler Hamiltonian as a…
In this paper we study traveling wave solutions to the free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes system with generalized Navier-slip conditions. The fluid is assumed to occupy a horizontally infinite strip-like domain that is bounded below…
We study the flow of an incompressible liquid film down a wavy incline. Applying a Galerkin method with only one ansatz function to the Navier-Stokes equations we derive a second order weighted residual integral boundary layer equation,…
The dynamics of surface waves traveling along the boundary of a liquid medium are changed by the presence of floating plates and membranes, contributing to a number of important phenomena in a wide range of applications. Mathematically, if…
The paper performs simulation of a rectangular plate excited by turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds numbers of 180 and 400. The fluid-structure interaction is assumed to be one-way coupled, i.e, the fluid affects the solid and not…