The current study presents the results of the aerodynamic noise prediction of the flow field around a NACA 0012 airfoil at a chord-based Reynolds number of 100,000 and at 8.4 degree angle of attack. An incompressible Large Eddy Simulation (LES) turbulence model is applied to obtain the instantaneous turbulent flow field. The noise prediction is performed by the Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings (FW-...

In this paper, known probabilistic methods for estimating the thickness of boundary layer a two-dimensional laminar flow viscous incompressible fluid are extended to three-dimensional flows compressible medium. Their applicability problems boundary-layer stability is studied with LOTRAN3 software package, which allows us compute position laminar-turbulent transition in aerodynamic configurations.

The character of transitional capillary flow is investigated using pressure-drop measurements and instantaneous velocity fields acquired by microscopic PIV in the streamwise–wall-normal plane of a 536 lm capillary over the Reynolds-number range 1,800 £ Re £ 3,400 in increments of 100. The pressure-drop measurements reveal a deviation from laminar behavior at Re = 1,900 with the differences betw...

Transport of mass, heat and momentum in turbulent flows by far exceeds that in stable laminar fluid motions. As turbulence is a state of a flow dominated by a hierarchy of scales, it is not clear which of these scales mostly affects particle dispersion. Also, it is not uncommon that turbulence coexists with coherent vortices. Here we report on Lagrangian statistics in laboratory two-dimensional...

Bedload transport generally depends on the bed shear stress and Reynolds number. Many studies conducted for the condition of turbulent flows have revealed the dependence of the transport rate on the bed shear stress, while knowledge of the Reynolds number effect on the transport rate is very limited. As an extreme case to reflect the viscous effect on sediment transport, sediment transport in l...

Results are presented from a series of analytical and numerical studies of buoyantly driven flows along heated vertical surfaces immersed in stably stratified fluids. Flows of the studied type are broadly represented in engineering and geophysical applications. First, the classical problem of one-dimensional natural convection flow along a heated wall is revisited for the case of a stably strat...

We have developed a fast numerical algorithm for simulating flows in complex moving domains. The new hybrid smoothed profile/spectral element method exhibits high-order accuracy as well as great computational efficiency as it removes the tyranny of mesh generation. Here we extend this work by incorporating a variational multiscale large eddy formulation for modeling the subgrid turbulent scales...

This paper discusses the capabilities of a two-fluid turbulence model for solving complex physical problems such as separated flow around square cylinder and laminar-turbulent in suddenly expanding channel. The numerical solution to system hydrodynamic equations is implemented using finite-difference scheme. At each time step, velocities are corrected through pressure calculations according SIM...

The work presents an artificial compressibility method applied to incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for steady as well as for unsteady flows. Two modifications of unsteady numerical solution by an implicit finite volume method are considered. First one uses large artificial compressibility parameter and the iterative solution approximates unsteady evolution of flow. The second approach int...

Various types of impinging jet flows are analytically modeled using inviscid free Gaussian jet solutions superimposed with experimentally fitted boundary layer models. Improved (more robust) and simplified solutions to existing models are defined. Velocity profiles, surface pressure distributions, and streamline plots are calculated for circular, plane, and annular impinging jets. The models sh...