An energy-efficient pathway to turbulent drag reduction

I Marusic, D Chandran, A Rouhi, MK Fu, D Wine… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Simulations and experiments at low Reynolds numbers have suggested that skin-friction
drag generated by turbulent fluid flow over a surface can be decreased by oscillatory motion …

Statistics and dynamics of coherent structures in compressible wall-bounded turbulence

M Yu, SW Dong, XX Yuan, CX Xu - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2024 - Springer
Compressible wall-bounded turbulence is ubiquitously encountered in modern aerospace
and mechanical industries. In this review, we summarize the current state of the literature on …

Separating large-scale superposition and modulation in turbulent channels

A Andreolli, D Gatti, R Vinuesa, R Örlü… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The presence of very-large-scale motions in wall-bounded turbulent flows is commonly
associated with their footprint in the form of the superposition of the large scales at the wall …

[HTML][HTML] Direct numerical simulation of drag reduction by spanwise oscillating dielectric barrier discharge plasma force

A Altıntaş, L Davidson, SH Peng - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
DBD (dielectric barrier discharge) plasma actuators have in recent years become
increasingly attractive in studies of flow control due to their light structures and easy …

On the structure of streamwise wall-shear stress fluctuations in turbulent channel flows

C Cheng, W Li, A Lozano-Durán, H Liu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
A growing body of studies in wall-bounded turbulence has shown that the generation of wall-
shear stress fluctuations is directly connected with outer-layer large-scale motions. In the …

Large-to-small scale frequency modulation analysis in wall-bounded turbulence via visibility networks

G Iacobello, L Ridolfi, S Scarsoglio - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Scale interaction is studied in wall-bounded turbulence by focusing on the frequency
modulation (FM) mechanism of the large scales on small-scale velocity fluctuations. Different …

Predictive models for near-wall velocity and temperature fluctuations in supersonic wall-bounded turbulence

M Yu, C Xu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Predictive models for near-wall velocity and temperature fluctuations in compressible wall-
bounded turbulence are developed in the present study based on the model proposed by …

A scaling improved inner–outer decomposition of near-wall turbulent motions

L Wang, R Hu, X Zheng - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Near-wall turbulent velocities in turbulent channel flows are decomposed into small-scale
and large-scale components at y+< 100 by improving the predictive inner–outer model of …

Artificially thickened boundary layer turbulence due to trip wires of varying diameter

Z Tang, N Jiang, Z Lu, Q Zhou - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
In this paper, we study the artificially thickened boundary layer flows downstream of the
trip** configuration that consists of a set of trip wires of varying diameters. Single-point hot …

Auto-encoder-assisted analysis of amplitude and wavelength modulation of near-wall turbulence by outer large-scale structures in channel flow at friction Reynolds …

L Agostini, M Leschziner - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports a novel methodology that allows the intensity of, and the underlying
mechanism for, the amplitude and length-scale modulation (amplification or attenuation) of …