The results from Floquet stability analysis of the flow around nominally two-dimensional long plates with elliptical leading edges and blunt trailing edges are presented, elucidating the early stages of wake transition to turbulent flow. Three modes of instability are found: Mode A, Mode B and a period doubling mode. The first two of these also occur in wake transition for circular cylinders an...

Simultaneous planar measurements of laser-induced incandescence (LII) and Laser-Induced Fluorescence of OH radical were carried out in turbulent jet flames from a simple jet, precessing jet and bluff body burner firing natural gas. These flames span a wide range of global mixing rates and sooting characteristics, and are selected because measurements of total NOx emissions, radiant fraction and...

We study a new hybrid RANS/Variational Multiscale LES (VMS-LES) model for bluff body flows. The simulations have been carried out using a parallelized solver, based on a mixed element/volume formulation on unstructured grids. First, the behavior of a VMS-LES model with different subgrid scale models is investigated for the flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds number Re =3900. Second, a new...