The study of compressible homogeneous shear flows has been largely analyzed in literature. Predictions for these flows require an improvement of existing turbulence models. Rapid-distortion-theory (RDT) has largely showed its relevance and its utility to identify compressibility effects which allow us to analyze performances of compressible turbulence models from the existing literature. This p...

Vortex stretching in a compressible fluid is considered. Two-dimensional (2D) and axisymmetric cases are considered separately. The flows associated with the vortices are perpendicular to the plane of the uniform straining flows. Externally-imposed density build-up near the axis leads to enhanced compactness of the vortices – “dressed” vortices (in analogy to “dressed” charged particles in a di...

the present research simulates time-periodic unsteady transonic flow around pitching airfoils via the solution of unsteady euler and navier-stokes equations, using time spectral method (tsm) and compares it with the traditional methods such as bdf and explicit structured adaptive grid method. the tsm uses a fourier representation in time and hence solves for the periodic state directly accordin...

Certain aspects of the mean-field theory of turbulent passive scalar transport and of mean-field electrodynamics are considered with particular emphasis on aspects of compressible fluids. It is demonstrated that the total mean-field diffusivity for passive scalar transport in a compressible flow may well be smaller than the molecular diffusivity. This is in full analogy to an old finding regard...