Horizontal convection in a rectangular enclosure driven by a linear temperature profile along the bottom boundary is investigated numerically using a high-resolution spectralelement discretization in space and a third-order time integration scheme for velocity and temperature fields. A Boussinesq approximation is employed to model buoyancy. The emphasis of this study is on the scaling of Nussel...

The present study deals with the analysis of unsteady boundary layer flow and heat transfer of an incompressible micropolar fluid over a stretching sheet when the sheet is stretched in its own plane. The velocity and temperature are assumed to vary linearly with the distance along the sheet. Two equal and opposite forces are impulsively applied along the x-axis so that the sheet is stretched, k...

Linear and nonlinear optimal control have been investigated in transitional channel and boundary layer flows. The flow phenomena that we study are governed by the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations and the main aim with the control is to prevent transition from laminar to turbulent flows. A linear model-based feedback control approach, that minimizes an objective function which measures the...

An examination of the effects of surface step excrescences on boundary layer transition was performed, using a unique experimental facility. The objective of the work was to characterize the variation of transition Reynolds numbers with measurable step size and boundary layer parameters, with the specific goal of specifying new tolerance criteria for laminar flow airfoils, alongside a fundament...

The strong mean shear in the vicinity of the boundaries in turbulent boundary layer flows preferentially amplifies a particular class of perturbations resulting in the appearance of coherent structures and in characteristic associated spatial and temporal velocity spectra. This enhanced response to certain perturbations can be traced to the nonnormality of the linearized dynamical operator thro...

In this paper, the reconstruction mechanism of the boundary layer in the channel is studied using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). By comparing the distribution of velocity in the channel, the conclusion that LBM has feasibility and superiority is obtained. Based on this, a physical model of square cylinders is set up to simulate the velocity distribution and the effect on the thickness of b...

Effective delay of turbulent boundary layer separation could be achieved via closed-loop control. Constructing such a system requires that sensor data be processed, real-time, and fed into the controller to determine the output. Current methods for detection of turbulent boundary layer separation are lacking the capability of localized, fast and reliable identification of the boundary layer sta...

The behaviour of laminar boundary layer flow field over a solid surface moving with constant speed plays a significant role in several applications of science and technology. This paper examines the steady, laminar incompressible boundary-layer flow of a viscous electrically conducting fluid past a moving wedge with suction (injection) in the presence of an applied magnetic field. The set of pa...

in the age of technology, it is vital to cool down different parts of a device to use it more beneficially. using nanofluids is one of the most common methods which has shown very effective results. in this paper, we have rephrased a classic equation in fluid mechanics, i.e. the falkner-skan boundary layer equation, in order to be used for nanofluid. this nonlinear equation, which was presented...