This work focuses on the performance and validation of compressible turbulence models for the pressure-strain correlation. Considering the Launder Reece and Rodi (LRR) incompressible model for the pressure-strain correlation, Adumitroaie et al., Huan...
The decomposition of the local motion of a fluid into straining, shearing, and rigid-body rotation is examined in this work for a compressible isotropic turbulence by means of direct numerical simulations. The triple decomposition is closely associat...
Homogeneous isotropic turbulence (HIT) has been a useful theoretical concept for more than fifty years of theory, modelling, and calculations. Some exact results are revisited in incompressible HIT, with special emphasis on the 4/5 Kolmogorov law. Th...
This paper studies the exact and approximate relations between fluctuations in thermodynamic variables (pressure, density and temperature) that are imposed by the dilute-gas (Z=1) equation-of-state (EoS), which is a satisfactory approximation of air...
One of the key factors in simulating realistic wall-bounded flows at high Reynolds numbers is the selection of an appropriate turbulence model for the steady Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS) equations. In this investigation, the...
This comprehensive overview presents our continued efforts in high-order finite difference method (FDM) development for adaptive numerical dissipation control in the long-time integration of direct numerical simulation (DNS), large eddy simulation (L...
This is a comprehensive overview on our research work to link interdisciplinary modeling and simulation techniques to improve the predictability and reliability simulations (PARs) of compressible turbulence with shock waves for general audiences who...
Solving two-dimensional compressible turbulence problems up to a resolution of 16, 3842, this paper investigates the characteristics of two promising computational approaches: (i) an implicit or numerical large eddy simulation (ILES) framework using...
The accurate prediction of supersonic turbulent separated flows involved in aerospace vehicles is a great challenge for current numerical simulations. Based on the k–ω equations, several different compressibility corrections are incorpora...
The thermodynamic turbulence structure of compressible aerodynamic flows is often characterised by the correlation coefficient of entropy with pressure or temperature. We study entropy fluctuations s′ and their correlations with the fluctuation...
This article presents a theoretical study of the scaling properties of the kinetic energy spectrum in compressible turbulence. From the fundamental symmetries and linear transformations of the microscopic action, we derive exact relations between the...
This work deals with the numerical solution of hypersonic flow of viscous fluid over a compressible ramp. The solved case involves very important and complicated phenomena such as the interaction of the shock wave with the boundary layer or the trans...
In the simulation of compressible turbulent flows via a high-order flux reconstruction framework, the artificial viscosity model plays an important role to ensure robustness in the strongly compressible region. However, the impact of the artificial v...
This article represents the second part of a review by De Stefano and Vasilyev (2021) on wavelet-based adaptive methods for modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. Unlike the hierarchical adaptive eddy-capturing approach, described in the first p...
This paper employs direct numerical simulation (DNS) to investigate the influence of blowing and suction control on the compressible fully developed turbulent flow within an infinitely long channel. The spanwise blowing strips are positioned at unifo...
The dispersion and dissipation properties of a numerical scheme are critical in simulating flow fields involving a wide range of length scales. In this study, we highlight the common oversight of focusing merely on controlling dispersion error withou...
In isotropic turbulence, symmetry of different directions can reduce the number of independent components for velocity gradient tensors. In three-dimensional isotropic turbulence, the independent components under either incompressible or compressible...
The high-pressure gaseous hydrogen (HPGH2) storage method is widely used owing to the low density of hydrogen gas at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure. Therefore, rigorous safety analysis of the filling and discharging of compressed gas in...
An approach based on the OpenFOAM library has been developed to solve a high-speed, multicomponent mixture of a reacting, compressible flow. This work presents comprehensive validation of the newly developed solver, called compressibleCentralReacting...
In the last few decades a series of experiments have revealed that turbulence is a cooperative and critical phenomenon showing a continuous phase change with the critical Reynolds number at its onset. However, the applications of phase transition mod...
Two different scale-resolving simulation (SRS) approaches to turbulence modeling and simulation are used to predict the breakup of a spherical water droplet in air, due to the impact of a traveling plane shock wave. The compressible flow governing eq...
In this paper, known probabilistic methods for estimating the thickness of the boundary layer of a two-dimensional laminar flow of viscous incompressible fluid are extended to three-dimensional laminar flows of a viscous compressible medium. Their ap...
A numerical study was carried out to evaluate the influence of engine combustion chamber geometry and operating conditions on the performance and emissions of a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine. Combustion in an HCCI engine is a...
Supercritical CO2 foil bearings are promising bearing technology for supercritical CO2 high-speed turbomachinery. The partial derivative method including complete variable perturbation of the compressible turbulent lubrication Reynolds equation is ef...
In this study, the unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) equations are employed in conjunction with the Menter Shear Stress Transport (SST)-Scale-Adaptive Simulation (SAS) turbulence model in compressible flow, with an unstructured m...
Due to the low density of hydrogen gas under ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure conditions, the high-pressure gaseous hydrogen storage method is widely employed. With high-pressure characteristics of hydrogen storage, rigorous safety precau...
The compressible and turbulent gas–solid multiphase flow inside a fluidized bed opposed jet mill was systematically investigated through numerical simulations using the Euler–Euler approach along with the kinetic theory of granular flow a...
In this paper, the ITTC Standard Cavitator is numerically investigated in a cavitation tunnel. Simulations at different cavitation numbers are compared against experiments conducted in the cavitation tunnel of SVA Potsdam. The focus is placed on the...
A countless amount of energy has been wasted in all kinds of expansion valves (EV) in industries. In fact, EVs, including regulators, throttling valves, capillary tubes, etc., have been used to intentionally reduce the potential of carrier fluid. Cit...
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Direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of the T106A low-pressure turbine were conducted for various turbulence intensities and length scales to investigate their effects on flow behaviour and transition. A source-term formulation of the synthetic eddy m...
We present a new finite element framework for modeling compressible, turbulent multiphase flows with heat transfer. For two-fluid systems with a free surface, the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is implemented without the need for interface reconstructi...
Turbulence is governed by various mechanisms, such as production, dissipation, diffusion, dilatation and convection, which lead to its evolution and decay. In high-speed flows, turbulence becomes complicated due to compressibility effects. Therefore,...
Asymptotic reductions of the Fanno model for one-dimensional turbulent compressible flow of a perfect gas in a long tube are investigated. Conservation laws are derived using the multiplier method for a nonlinear wave equation and a nonlinear diffusi...
The renormalization group approach and the operator product expansion technique are applied to the model of a passively advected vector field by a turbulent velocity field. The latter is governed by the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation for a compres...
A simultaneous-approximation term is a non-reflecting boundary condition that is usually accompanied by summation-by-parts schemes for provable time stability. While a high-order convective flux based on reconstruction is often employed in a finite-v...
Shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SBLI) is one of the most common physical phenomena in transonic wing and supersonic aircraft. In this study, the compression ramp SBLI (CR-SBLI) was simulated at a 24° corner at Mach 2.84 using the...
The effects of Mach number on the skin friction and velocity fluctuations of the turbulent boundary layer are considered through a sonic eddy model. Originally proposed for free shear flows, the model assumes that the eddies responsible for momentum...
In hydraulic systems, transient flow often occurs and may results in cavitation in pipelines. In this paper, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method based on the Fluent software was used to investigate the cavitation flow in pipeline; the densi...
The focus of this paper is on Rapid Distortion Theory on transversely sheared mean flows, which is often used to investigate turbulence-solid surface interactions. The main purpose of the paper is to bring together and present in a consistent fashion...
Within the framework of Classical Continuum Thermomechanics, we consider an unsteady isothermal flow of a simple isotropic linear viscous fluid in the liquid state to investigate the transient flow conditions. Despite the attention paid to this probl...
Investigations of fluidic oscillators, or sweeping jet actuators, have primarily been conducted within the incompressible flow regime, which limits the accuracy of estimating fluidic oscillator performance for compressible flows. The objective of thi...
Hydrogen is the cleanest fuel available because its combustion product is water. The internal combustion engine can, in principle and without significant modifications, run on hydrogen to produce mechanical energy. Regarding the technological solutio...
In this study, the ability of standard one- or two-equation turbulence models to predict mean and turbulence profiles, the Reynolds stress, and the turbulent heat flux in hypersonic cold-wall boundary-layer applications is investigated. The turbulenc...
The Earth’s magnetosphere is permanently influenced by the solar wind. When supersonic and superalfvenic plasma flow interacts with the magnetosphere, the magnetosheath region is formed, which is filled with shocked turbulent plasma. Varying SW...
A computational fluid dynamics investigation of a turbulent supersonic jet impacting a solid flat plate is conducted utilizing the OpenFOAM software. The research focuses on simulating the three-dimensional mean compressible flow for jet impingement...
The general vorticity equation for turbulent compressible 2-D flows with variable viscosity is derived, based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations, and simplified versions of it are presented in the case of turbulent or cavitating...
Analytical or empirical models of the wall-pressure power spectral density under a turbulent boundary layer are often validated on test cases in an incompressible flow regime. In this work, an analytical model based on the compressible Poisson equati...
We present results of a multiscale study of Hall-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, carried out on a dataset of compressible nonlinear 2D Hall-MHD numerical simulations of decaying Alfvénic turbulence. For the first time, we identify two di...
A novel three-equation turbulence model has been proposed as a potential solution to overcome some of the issues related to the k–ε models of turbulence. A number of turbulence models found in the literature designed for compressed turb...
Fluctuations in fast streams or in slow Alfvénic streams of the solar wind, and in the high-latitude wind, are characterized by high cross-helicity and a low level of compressions. Such properties, which are typical of Alfvénic fluctuat...
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