This Note is concerned with the speed of propagation of a chemical reaction in a fast, steady and non uniform flow, which may apply to flame propagation in some instances. The structure of the flow is 1) a parallel shear flow with velocity perpendicular to the average front, where the flame speed is close to the maximum flow speed toward the fresh gases 2) a periodic cellular structure where th...

Propane combustion in a trapped vortex combustor (TVC) is characterized via large eddy simulation coupled with filtered mass density function. A computational algorithm based on high order finite difference (FD) schemes, is employed to solve the Eulerian filtered compressible Navier-Stokes equations. In contrast, a Lagrangian Monte-Carlo solver based on the filtered mass density function is inv...

We show that the effective gauge field for photons provides a versatile platform for controlling the flow of light. As an example we consider a photonic resonator lattice where the coupling strength between nearest neighbor resonators are harmonically modulated. By choosing different spatial distributions of the modulation phases, and hence imposing different inhomogeneous effective magnetic fi...

We show that the effective gauge field for photons provides a versatile platform for controlling the flow of light. As an example we consider a photonic resonator lattice where the coupling strength between nearest neighbor resonators are harmonically modulated. By choosing different spatial distributions of the modulation phases, and hence imposing different inhomogeneous effective magnetic fi...

Spatio-temporal measurements of a fluctuating pressure field acting on the side faces of a square prism of finite height in boundary-layer flows are presented for 0 ° angle of attack. Two typical neutral atmospheric flow conditions were simulated in the wind tunnel to represent open country and urban flow environments. The fluctuating pressure field data allowed computat ions of the mean and r....

Although previous research has documented well-organized interactions between the turbulent flow field and an irregular boundary, the spatial variability of turbulent flow characteristics at the reach-scale remains poorly understood. In this paper, we present detailed field measurements of three-dimensional flow velocities and turbulence intensities in a high-gradient, cobble-bed riffle from th...