Forecasting small-scale dynamics of fluid turbulence using deep neural networks

D Buaria, KR Sreenivasan - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Turbulence in fluid flows is characterized by a wide range of interacting scales. Since the
scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of …

Vorticity-strain rate dynamics and the smallest scales of turbulence

D Buaria, A Pumir - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Building upon the intrinsic properties of Navier-Stokes dynamics, namely the prevalence of
intense vortical structures and the interrelationship between vorticity and strain rate, we …

Generation of intense dissipation in high Reynolds number turbulence

D Buaria, A Pumir… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intense fluctuations of energy dissipation rate in turbulent flows result from the self-
amplification of strain rate via a quadratic nonlinearity, with contributions from vorticity (via …

Intermittency of turbulent velocity and scalar fields using three-dimensional local averaging

D Buaria, KR Sreenivasan - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
An efficient approach for extracting three-dimensional local averages in spherical
subdomains is proposed and applied to study the intermittency of small-scale velocity and …

On the interaction of turbulence with nucleation and growth in reaction crystallisation

HY Tang, S Rigopoulos, G Papadakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The objective of this work is to investigate the interaction of turbulence with the nonlinear
processes of particle nucleation and growth that occur in reaction crystallisation, also known …

Turbulence is an ineffective mixer when Schmidt numbers are large

D Buaria, MP Clay, KR Sreenivasan, PK Yeung - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We solve the advection-diffusion equation for a stochastically stationary passive scalar θ, in
conjunction with forced 3D Navier-Stokes equations, using direct numerical simulations in …

Role of pressure in the dynamics of intense velocity gradients in turbulent flows

D Buaria, A Pumir - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We investigate the role of pressure, via its Hessian tensor ${\boldsymbol {H}} $, on
amplification of vorticity and strain-rate and contrast it with other inviscid nonlinear …

High-fidelity reconstruction of large-area damaged turbulent fields with a physically constrained generative adversarial network

Q Zheng, T Li, B Ma, L Fu, X Li - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
The reconstruction of incomplete information in flow fields is a pervasive challenge in
numerous turbulence-related applications. This paper proposes a framework for the high …

A non-local spectral transfer model and new scaling law for scalar turbulence

A Akhavan-Safaei, M Zayernouri - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
In this study, we revisit the spectral transfer model for the turbulent intensity in passive scalar
transport (under large-scale anisotropic forcing), and a subsequent modification to the …

[HTML][HTML] On the effect of turbulent fluctuations on precipitation: A direct numerical simulation–population balance study

HY Tang, S Rigopoulos, G Papadakis - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The objective of the present paper is to investigate the effect of turbulent fluctuations on
precipitation and the implications for modelling. To this end, a coupled direct numerical …