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The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…
An obstacle is immersed in an externally driven 2D Stokes or Navier-Stokes fluid. We study the self-equilibration conditions for that obstacle under steady state assumptions on the flow. We then seek to optimize the translational and/or…
Kolmogorov flow in two dimensions - the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a sinusoidal body force - is considered over extended periodic domains to reveal localised spatiotemporal complexity. The flow response mimicks the forcing…
Loosely speaking, the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model and the Navier-Stokes equations differ by a spatial filtration parametrized by a scale denoted $\alpha$. Starting from a strong two-dimensional solution to the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ model…
We study Lagrangian statistics of the magnitudes of velocity and pressure gradients in isotropic turbulence by quantifying their correlation functions and their characteristic time scales. It has been found that the Lagrangian…
Neural networks have been used to solve different types of large data related problems in many different fields.This project takes a novel approach to solving the Navier-Stokes Equations for turbulence by training a neural network using…
The turbulent flow in an infinitely extended plane channel is analysed by solving the Navier-Stokes equations with a DNS approach. Solutions are obtained in a numerical solution domain of finite size in the streamwise as well as in the…
In this article we consider a damped version of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the whole three-dimensional space with a divergence-free and time-independent external force. Within the framework of a well-prepared force and…
The scale factors of an arbitrary orthogonal space are a measure of its content of homogeneous orthogonal space. In the present study, it is shown, that their spatial and temporal rates of variation do not contribute to the differential…
This paper presents a new numerical method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations governing the flow of an ideal isentropic gas. To approximate the continuity equation, the method utilizes a discontinuous Galerkin discretization on…
Nudging is an important data assimilation technique where partial field measurements are used to control the evolution of a dynamical system and/or to reconstruct the entire phase-space configuration of the supplied flow. Here, we apply it…
There is very limited knowledge of the kinematical relations for the velocity structure functions higher than three. Instead, the dynamical equations for the structure functions of the velocity increment are obtained from the Navier Stokes…
We carry out a stability and convergence analysis of a fully discrete scheme for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations resulting from combining an $H(\mathrm{div}, \Omega)$-conforming discontinuous Galerkin spatial discretization, and…
The statistical nature of discrete fluid molecules with random thermal motion so far has not been considered in mainstream fluid mechanics based on Navier-Stokes equations, wherein fluids have been treated as a continuum breaking into many…
We study the saturation of three-dimensional unstable perturbations on a fast rotating turbulent flow using direct numerical simulations (DNSs). Under the effect of Kolmogorov forcing, a transition between states dominated by coherent…
We construct a fully discrete numerical scheme that is linear, decoupled, and unconditionally energy stable, and analyze its optimal error estimates for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. For time discretization, we employ the two…
Turbulence is a fundamental flow phenomenon, typically anisotropic at large scales and approximately isotropic at small scales. The classical Kolmogorov scaling laws (2/3, -5/3 and 4/5) have been well-established for turbulence without…
Exact budget equations for the second-order structure function tensor $\langle \delta u_i \delta u_j \rangle$ are used to study the two-point statistics of velocity fluctuations in inhomogeneous turbulence. The Anisotropic Generalized…
We study well-posedness of a velocity-vorticity formulation of the Navier--Stokes equations, supplemented with no-slip velocity boundary conditions, a no-penetration vorticity boundary condition, along with a natural vorticity boundary…
We investigate a steady flow of incompressible fluid in the plane. The motion is governed by the Navier-Stokes equations with prescribed velocity $u_\infty$ at infinity. The main result shows the existence of unique solutions for arbitrary…