Simulations of turbulent convection flow adjacent to a two-dimensional backward-facing step are presented to explore the effects of step height on turbulent separated flow and heat transfer. Reynolds number and duct’s height downstream from the step are kept constant at Re0 = 28,000 and H = 0.19 m, respectively. Uniform and constant heat flux of qw = 270 W/m 2 is specified at the stepped wall d...

Direct numerical simulations ~DNS! are conducted to study the turbulence-chemical reaction interactions in homogeneous decaying compressible fluid flows. The reaction is of a single-step irreversible Arrhenius type. The results indicate that the heat of reaction has a noticeable influence on the solenoidal and the dilatational turbulent motions. The effect of reaction on the solenoidal velocity...

The objective of this study is to improve Eulerian-Eulerian models of particle-laden turbulent flow. We begin by understanding the behavior of two existing models—one proposed by Simonin von Kármán Institute of Fluid Dynamics Lecture Series, 1996 , and the other by Ahmadi Int. J. Multiphase Flow 16, 323 1990 —in the limiting case of statistically homogeneous particle-laden turbulent flow. The d...

The effect of forced near-inertial motion on the kinetic energy budget of a turbulent, geostrophic background flow is examined using a primitive equation ocean circulation model. Balanced and unbalanced parts of the flow are taken to be equivalent to lowand high-passed filtered versions of the model fields, and the Reynolds stresses associated with the high-passed, predominantly near-inertial p...

The prevailing theory for the origin of cosmic magnetic fields is that they have been amplified to their present values by the turbulent dynamo inductive action in the protogalactic and galactic medium. Up to now, in calculation of the turbulent dynamo, it has been customary to assume that there is no back reaction of the magnetic field on the turbulence, as long as the magnetic energy is less ...

Our turbulent lengthscale, velocity and diffusivity scalings are compared with data from other numerical, laboratory and field experiments. Comparison is made with reference to the turbulence intensity measure /νN. We showed that our turbulent lengthscale and velocity results are consistent with measurements from the experiments considered, and that the rms turbulent lengthscale Lt is independe...

Both steady and unsteady turbulent mixed convection heat transfer in a 3D lid-driven enclosure, which has constant heat flux on the middle of bottom wall and with isothermal moving sidewalls, is reported in this paper for working fluid with Prandtl number Pr = 0.71. The other walls are adiabatic and stationary. The dimensionless parameters used in this research are Reynolds number, Re = 5000, 1...