Network-based analysis of fluid flows: Progress and outlook

K Taira, AG Nair - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
The network of interactions among fluid elements and coherent structures gives rise to the
incredibly rich dynamics of vortical flows. These interactions can be described with the use …

[HTML][HTML] Computational study of three-dimensional Lagrangian transport and mixing in a stirred tank reactor

C Weiland, E Steuwe, J Fitschen, M Hoffmann… - Chemical engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The detection of compartments and dead zones as well as the estimation of the mixing
efficiency in stirred tanks are of vital interest for a variety of biochemical and chemical …

Explicit and implicit network connectivity: Analytical formulation and application to transport processes

E Ser-Giacomi, T Legrand, I Hernandez-Carrasco… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Connectivity is a fundamental structural feature of a network that determines the outcome of
any dynamics that happens on top of it. However, an analytical approach to obtain …

Evolutionary clustering of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection flows

C Schneide, PP Vieweg, J Schumacher… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We explore the transport mechanisms of heat in two-and three-dimensional turbulent
convection flows by means of the long-term evolution of Lagrangian coherent sets. They are …

Network analysis of Reynolds number scaling in wall-bounded Lagrangian mixing

D Perrone, JGM Kuerten, L Ridolfi, S Scarsoglio - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
The dispersion and mixing of passive particles in a turbulent channel flow are investigated
by means of a network-based representation of their motion. We employ direct numerical …

Open-flow mixing and transfer operators

A Klünker, K Padberg-Gehle… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We study finite-time mixing in time-periodic open flow systems. We describe the transport of
densities in terms of a transfer operator, which is represented by the transition matrix of a …

[HTML][HTML] Lagrangian studies of coherent sets and heat transport in constant heat flux-driven turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection

PP Vieweg, A Klünker, J Schumacher… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
We explore the mechanisms of heat transfer in a turbulent constant heat flux-driven Rayleigh–
Bénard convection flow, which exhibits a hierarchy of flow structures from granules to …

Visibility analysis of boundary layer transition

D Perrone, L Ridolfi, S Scarsoglio - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study the transition to turbulence in a flat plate boundary layer by means of visibility
analysis of velocity time-series extracted across the flow domain. By taking into account the …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting flow features in scarce trajectory data using networks derived from symbolic itineraries: an application to surface drifters in the North Atlantic

D Wichmann, C Kehl, HA Dijkstra… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2020 - npg.copernicus.org
The basin-wide surface transport of tracers such as heat, nutrients and plastic in the North
Atlantic Ocean is organized into large-scale flow structures such as the Western Boundary …

Lagrangian coherent sets in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection

C Schneide, M Stahn, A Pandey, O Junge, P Koltai… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Coherent circulation rolls and their relevance for the turbulent heat transfer in a two-
dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection model are analyzed. The flow is in a closed cell of …