Understanding transmission dynamics of COVID-19-type infections by direct numerical simulations of cough/sneeze flows

SS Diwan, S Ravichandran, R Govindarajan… - Transactions of the …, 2020 - Springer
The transmission dynamics of highly contagious respiratory diseases like COVID-19
(through coughing/sneezing) is an open problem in the epidemiological studies of such …

[HTML][HTML] Direct numerical simulations of incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities at low and medium Atwood numbers

A Hamzehloo, P Bartholomew, S Laizet - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D), single-
mode and multi-mode, incompressible immiscible Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instabilities are …

Particle concentrations and sizes for the onset of settling‐driven gravitational instabilities: Experimental validation and application to volcanic ash clouds

A Fries, J Lemus, PA Jarvis, AB Clarke… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Settling‐driven gravitational instabilities (SDGIs) can form at the base of buoyant particle‐
laden suspensions, modulating particle sedimentation in various settings such as …

Weatherscapes: Nowcasting heat transfer and water continuity

JAA Herrera, T Hädrich, W Pałubicki… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Due to the complex interplay of various meteorological phenomena, simulating weather is a
challenging and open research problem. In this contribution, we propose a novel physics …

Virus transmission by aerosol transport during short conversations

R Singhal, S Ravichandran, R Govindarajan, SS Diwan - Flow, 2022 - cambridge.org
The SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted not only through coughing, but also through breathing,
speaking or singing. We perform direct numerical simulations of the turbulent transport of …

Entrainment in dry and moist thermals

GR Vybhav, S Ravichandran - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
We study entrainment in dry thermals in neutrally and unstably stratified ambients, and moist
thermals in dry-neutrally stratified ambients using direct numerical simulations. We find, in …

Melting driven by rotating Rayleigh–Bénard convection

S Ravichandran, JS Wettlaufer - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the melting of a horizontal layer of a pure solid above a convecting
layer of its fluid rotating about the vertical axis. In the rotating regime studied here, with …

Effects of equatorially-confined shear flow on MRG and Rossby waves

MS Raghav, S Jose, A Apte, R Govindarajan - Dynamics of Atmospheres …, 2022 - Elsevier
Linear modal stability analysis of a mean zonal shear flow is carried out in the framework of
rotating shallow water equations (RSWE), both under the β-plane approximation and in the …

The combined effects of buoyancy, rotation, and shear on phase boundary evolution

S Ravichandran, S Toppaladoddi… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We use well-resolved numerical simulations to study the combined effects of buoyancy,
pressure-driven shear and rotation on the melt rate and morphology of a layer of pure solid …

Waltz of tiny droplets and the flow they live in

S Ravichandran, R Govindarajan - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
This article describes the dynamics of small inertial particles centrifuging out of a single
vortex. It shows the importance of caustics formation in the vicinity of a single vortex: both for …