Turbulent wake is crucial for the visually appealing effects of liquid. Unfortunately, it is challenging to realistically simulate this phenomenon with ring-shaped vortical structures. To tackle this issue, we propose a filament-based turbulent wake synthesis method for realistically simulating the turbulent wake with ring-shaped vortical structures. The filaments are sampled at the separation ...

Turbulent partially filled pipe flow was investigated using stereoscopic particle imaging velocimetry in the cross-stream plane for a range of depths at nominally constant Reynolds number 30 000 (based on bulk velocity and hydraulic diameter). Unlike full flow, which is axisymmetric, turbulent kinetic energy exhibits significant azimuthal (and radial) variation. Proper orthogonal decomposition ...

One of the most efficient methods of reducing drag on planing craft is the use of transverse step on the bottom of a hull. Applying steps on the hull reduces the contact area with water and as a result, it reduces drag of the craft. Planing craft are able to have one or two transverse steps. In this paper, numerical hydrodynamic performance of the stepped planing craft and its step height effec...

The recently discovered nonequilibrium turbulence dissipation law implies the existence of axisymmetric turbulent wake regions where the mean flow velocity deficit decays as the inverse of the distance from the wake-generating body and the wake width grows as the square root of that distance. This behavior is different from any documented boundary-free turbulent shear flow to date. Its existenc...

The energy equation for turbulent flow of fiber suspensions was derived in terms of second order correlation tensors. Fiber motion of turbulent energy including the correlation between pressure fluctuations and velocity fluctuations was discussed at two points of flow field, at which the correlation tensors were the functions of space coordinates, distance between two points, and time.

A model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed to reconstruct the three-dimensional turbulent flows beneath free surface using measurements, including elevation and velocity. Trained datasets obtained from direct numerical simulation of open-channel with deformable surface, proposed can accurately near-surface flow field capture characteristic large-scale structures away surf...

Static electromagnetic braking (EMBr) fields affect greatly the turbulent flow pattern in steel continuous casting, which leads to potential benefits such as decreasing flow instability, surface defects, and inclusion entrapment if applied correctly. To gain a fundamental understanding of how EMBr affects transient turbulent flow, the current work applies large eddy simulations (LES) to investi...

In an estuary, a tidal bore may be generated at the leading edge of the flood tidal wave during the early flood tide under spring tide conditions into a narrow funnelled channel. For Froude numbers greater than 1.4–1.6, the leading edge of the bore is characterised by a breaking roller. The roller is characterised by a sudden increase in water depth, a highly turbulent flow with large-scale vor...

In a hydraulic jump, the turbulent flow region between the upstream supercritical flow and downstream subcritical flow is called the jump roller. The turbulence development in the jump roller leads to substantial energy dissipation as well as free-surface fluctuations, oscillations of jump position, air entrainment and unstationary velocity field. The time scales of these motions cover a broad ...