Turbulence with large thermal and compositional density variations

D Livescu - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Density variations in fluid flows can arise due to acoustic or thermal fluctuations,
compositional changes during mixing of fluids with different molar masses, or phase …

A two-phase mixing layer between parallel gas and liquid streams: multiphase turbulence statistics and influence of interfacial instability

Y Ling, D Fuster, G Tryggvason… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The two-phase mixing layer formed between parallel gas and liquid streams is an important
fundamental problem in turbulent multiphase flows. The problem is relevant to many …

[HTML][HTML] Self-similar Reynolds-averaged mechanical–scalar turbulence models for Rayleigh–Taylor, Richtmyer–Meshkov, and Kelvin–Helmholtz instability-induced …

O Schilling - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Analytical self-similar solutions to two-, three-, and four-equation Reynolds-averaged
mechanical–scalar turbulence models describing incompressible turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor …

Variable-density effects in incompressible non-buoyant shear-driven turbulent mixing layers

JR Baltzer, D Livescu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The asymmetries that arise when a mixing layer involves two miscible fluids of differing
densities are investigated using incompressible (low-speed) direct numerical simulations …

Effects of Atwood and Reynolds numbers on the evolution of buoyancy-driven homogeneous variable-density turbulence

D Aslangil, D Livescu, A Banerjee - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
The evolution of buoyancy-driven homogeneous variable-density turbulence (HVDT) at
Atwood numbers up to 0.75 and large Reynolds numbers is studied by using high-resolution …

Turbulent shear-layer mixing: initial conditions, and direct-numerical and large-eddy simulations

N Sharan, G Matheou, PE Dimotakis - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Turbulent shear-layer mixing: initial conditions, and direct-numerical and large-eddy
simulations Page 1 J. Fluid Mech. (2019), vol. 877, pp. 35–81. c Cambridge University Press …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of variable density on oscillatory flow around a non-conducting horizontal circular cylinder

M Ashraf, Z Ullah - AIP Advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The analysis of the oscillatory mixed convection flow of electrically conducting fluid along a
nonconducting horizontal circular cylinder in the presence of variable density is performed …

On the evolution of scalar iso-surface area density in a turbulent mixing layer

BC Blakeley, BJ Olson, JJ Riley - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
On the evolution of scalar iso-surface area density in a turbulent mixing layer Page 1 J. Fluid
Mech. (2023), vol. 966, A33, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.449 On the evolution of scalar iso-surface …

Dynamics of mixing flow with double-layer density stratification: Enstrophy and vortical structures

B Pei, FB Li, Z Luo, L Zhao, B Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Previous studies on stratified shear layers involving two streams with different densities have
been conducted under the Boussinesq approximation, while the combined effect of stratified …

Internal regulation in compressible turbulent shear layers

K Matsuno, SK Lele - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
High-resolution simulations of temporally evolving mixing layers, for convective Mach
numbers ranging from. These reduced spatial scales serve to reduce the effective velocity …