Annual Research Briefs 2018

Front cover

Table of contents

Preface

• Formation and dynamics of bubbles in breaking waves: Part I. Algorithms for the identification of bubbles and breakup/coalescence events.

  W. H. R. Chan, M. S. Dodd, P. L. Johnson, J. Urzay and P. Moin

• Formation and dynamics of bubbles in breaking waves: Part II. The evolution of the bubble size distribution and breakup/coalescence statistics.
  
  W. H. R. Chan, M. S. Dodd, P. L. Johnson, J. Urzay and P. Moin

• Tensor-based analysis of the flow topology in droplet-laden homogeneous isotropic turbulence.
  
  M. S. Dodd and L. Jofre

• A conservative diffuse-interface method for the simulation of compressible two-phase flows with turbulence and acoustics.
  
  S. S. Jain, A. Mani and P. Moin

• Fine-scale invariants in turbulence generated by rising bubbles.
  
  I. Paul and M. S. Dodd

•  The most effective interface disturbance of a round liquid jet.
  
  H. Hwang and M. J. P. Hack

• On wall modeling for LES of particle-laden turbulent channel flows.
  
  M. Bassenne, P. L. Johnson, J. Urzay and P. Moin

• Toward wall-modeled LES of particle-laden flows: Analysis of turbophoresis and inter-particle collisions in a turbulent channel flow.
  
  P. L. Johnson

• A filtering strategy for the convergence of the Beer-Bouguer law for radiation extinction in random particulate media.
  
  I. Paul and A. Mani

• Characterization of structural uncertainty in LES of a round jet.
  
  L. Jofre, S. P. Domino and G. Iaccarino

• Statistical description of intermittency and rare events via conditional space-time POD: Example of acoustic bursts in turbulent jets.
  
  O. T. Schmidt, P. J. Schmid, A. Towne and S. K. Lele

• Lyapunov stability analysis of nonlinear dynamics of sound generation in a mixing layer.
  
  Z.-N. Wang, N. Chandramoorthy, P. G. Tucker, Q. Wang, A. Towne and S. K. Lele

• Equilibrium wall-modeled LES of shock-induced aerodynamic heating in hypersonic boundary layers.
  
  L. Fu, M. Karp, S. T. Bose, P. Moin and J. Urzay

• Characteristic scales of Townsend’s wall-attached eddies.
  
  A. Lozano-Dur´an and H. J. Bae

• DNS-aided explicitly filtered LES of channel flow.
  
  H. J. Bae and A. Lozano-Dur´an

• Wall turbulence with constrained energy extraction from the mean flow.
  
  A. Lozano-Dur´an, M. Karp and N. C. Constantinou

• A computational framework for stability analysis of high-speed flows in complex geometries.
  
  T. Flint and M. J. P. Hack

• Separation delay by optimal streaks.
  
  M. Karp and M. J. P. Hack

• Wall-modeled LES of a spatially-developing non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layer.
  
  M. Cho, G. I. Park and P. Moin

• A variational framework for identifying nonlinear optimal disturbances in compressible flow.
  
  Z. Huang, T. Flint and M. J. P. Hack

• Thermal structures and heat transfer in wall-bounded flows at transcritical conditions.
  
  J. Guo, X. I. A. Yang and M. Ihme

• Mean flow scaling in a spanwise rotating channel.
  
  X. Yang, Z.-H. Xia, J. Lee, Y. Lv and J.-L. Yuan

• Variational multiscale SGS modeling for LES using a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method.
  
  K. Bando, F. Naddei, M. de la Llave Plata and M. Ihme

Roster