copper films of 300 nm thickness deposited by planar magnetron sputtering on glass substrates, for substrate temperatures between 300 and 500 k, and deposition rate of 10 ?s?1. microstructure of these films was obtained by x-ray diffraction, while the texture mode of diffractometer was used for stress measurement by the sin2? technique. the components of the stress tensor are obtained using mea...

The low-Reynolds-number motion of a single spherical particle between parallel walls is determined from the exact reflection of the velocity field generated by multipoles of the force density on the particle’s surface. A grand mobility tensor is constructed and couples these force multipoles to moments of the velocity field in the fluid surrounding the particle. Every element of the grand mobil...

The nature of the momentum transport processes responsible for the Reynolds shear stress is investigated using several ensembles of fluid particle paths obtained from a direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow. It is found that the Reynolds stress can be viewed as arising from two fundamentally different mechanisms. The more significant entails transport in the manner described by ...

To understand the basic characteristics of the observed S-shaped wind profile and the exponential flux profile within forest canopies, three hypotheses are postulated. The relationship between these fundamental profiles is well established by combining the postulated hypotheses with momentum equations. Robust agreements between theoretical predictions and observations indicate that the nature o...

Successful propagation of information from high-fidelity sources (i.e., direct numerical simulations and large-eddy simulations) into Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations plays an important role in the emerging field data-driven RANS modeling. Small errors carried data can propagate amplified mean flow field, higher Reynolds numbers worsen error propagation. In this study, we compar...

We study the driven cavity flow using the Navier slip boundary condition. Our results have shown that the Navier slip boundary condition removes the corner singularity induced by the no-slip boundary condition. In the low Reynolds number case, the behavior of the tangential stress is examined and the results are compared with the analytic results obtained in [14]. For the high Reynolds number, ...

The present paper concerns a numerical benchmark of various turbulence modelings, from RANS to LES, applied to Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille flows in a narrow gap cavity for six different combinations of rotational and axial Reynolds numbers. Two sets of refined Large-Eddy Simulation results, using the WALE and the Dynamic Smagorinsky subgrid scale models available within an in-house code based on ...

The Reynolds stress induced by anisotropically forcing an unbounded Couette flow, with uniform shear γ, on a β-plane, is calculated in conjunction with the eddy diffusivity of a co-evolving passive tracer. The flow is damped by linear drag on a time scale μ. The stochastic forcing is white-noise in time and its spatial anisotropy is controlled by a parameter α, that characterizes whether eddies...

Positive feedback between high-frequency eddies and low-frequency processes is believed to play an essential role in the NAO evolution. In this study, however, it found that previously well-studied upscale forcing intraseasonal scale window mostly limited during phase NAO−, but almost disappears NAO+. The maintenance of NAO+ by a strong barotropic instability basic flow, which has been overlook...

The recent introduction of a boundary stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetimes enabled a new construction of energy, momentum, and Lorentz charges. These charges are known to generate the asymptotic symmetries of the theory, but their explicit formulas are not identical to previous constructions in the literature. This paper corrects an earlier comparison with other approaches, includin...