Performance of high-speed hydrodynamic sliding bearings with lubricating oils combining laminar and turbulent flows

Hydrodynamic thickening of lubricating fluid layer beneath sliding mesothelial tissues.

The delicate mesothelial surfaces of the pleural space and other serosal cavities slide relative to each, lubricated by pleural fluid. In the absence of breathing motion, differences between lung and chest wall shape could eventually cause the lungs and chest wall to come into contact. Whether sliding motion keeps lungs and chest wall separated by a continuous liquid layer is not known. To expl...

Novelty Detection in Laminar and Turbulent Flows

cles in laminar and turbulent flows

Laminar-Turbulent Patterning in Transitional Flows

Wall-bounded flows experience a transition to turbulence characterized by the coexistence of laminar and turbulent domains in some range of Reynolds number R, the natural control parameter. This transitional regime takes place between an upper threshold Rt above which turbulence is uniform (featureless) and a lower threshold Rg below which any form of turbulence decays, possibly at the end of o...

Parallel Simulation of Turbulent Magneto-hydrodynamic Flows

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