Counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flows with radial temperature gradient

O Khawar, MF Baig, S Sanghi - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
In the present work, counter-rotating turbulent Taylor-Couette flows with radial temperature
gradient have been studied as an extension of previously studied simple-rotating turbulent …

[HTML][HTML] Strong dissimilarity between heat and momentum transfer in rotating Couette flows

G Brethouwer - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotation influences flows and transport processes in many engineering applications,
however, even in canonical flow cases, the effects of rotation are not fully understood. Here …

Taylor–Couette flow and heat transfer in an elliptical enclosure with a rotating inner cylinder

A Unnikrishnan, V Narayanan, LP Chamorro… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We numerically investigate Taylor–Couette flows within a system consisting of an elliptical
outer cylinder and a rotating inner circular cylinder, with particular emphasis on the behavior …

Turbulent drag reduction in compressible flows using streamwise traveling waves

M Ahmad, MF Baig, SF Anwer - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Skin-friction drag reduction (DR) in supersonic turbulent channel flows using streamwise
traveling waves of spanwise velocity (STWSV) has been studied using direct numerical …

Large-eddy simulation of turbulent natural convection in a cylindrical cavity using an off-lattice Boltzmann method

SRG Polasanapalli, K Anupindi - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In the present work, a characteristic-based off-lattice Boltzmann method with the large-eddy
simulation (LES) as the turbulence model is developed for the simulation of turbulent natural …

Drag reduction in turbulent Taylor–Couette flow by axial oscillation of inner cylinder

MX Zhao, M Yu, T Cao - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Drag reduction in turbulent Taylor–Couette flows by axial oscillation of inner cylinder is
investigated by direct numerical simulation. In the present study, the reference friction …

Turbulent mixed convection in a horizontal cylindrical cavity with the off-lattice Boltzmann method

SRG Polasanapalli, K Anupindi - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
Large-eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent mixed convection in a horizontal concentric
cylindrical cavity when cylinders are subjected to rotations are investigated in the present …

Numerical simulation of turbulent Taylor–Couette flow with high Taylor number and large radius ratio in high-speed canned motor pump internals

Y Zhang, R Xu, Y Song, D Wu, P Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Taylor–Couette flow with a high Taylor number and large radius ratio is widely present in
fluid machinery, such as the internal clearance flow in a canned motor pump typically. Taylor …

Skin-friction drag reduction by axial oscillations of the inner cylinder in turbulent Taylor–Couette flows

O Khawar, MF Baig, S Sanghi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Skin-friction drag reduction by axial oscillations of an inner cylinder is numerically
investigated at radius ratio (η= 0.5) using direct numerical simulation. In the present study, at …

Opposition control in compressible turbulent flows

M Ahmad, MF Baig, SF Anwer - Physics of Fluids, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Opposition control using out-of-phase, combined spanwise and wall-normal velocities at the
walls has been studied. The control aims to establish a virtual wall away from the boundary …