We develop a qualitative geometric approach to swimming at low Reynolds number which avoids solving differential equations and uses instead landscape figures of two notions of curvatures: The swimming curvature and the curvature derived from dissipation. This approach gives complete information for swimmers that swim on a line without rotations and gives the main qualitative features for genera...

In this study, a composite system made of multiple porous block structure used for flow and heat transfer control will be analyzed. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the changes in the flow pattern and heat transfer characteristics due to the existence of the multiple porous block structure. A general flow model that accounts for the effects of the impermeable boundary and inert...

We analyse weak and strong controllability notions for the locomotion of the 3-link Purcell’s swimmer, the simplest possible swimmer at low Reynolds number from a geometric framework. After revisiting a purely kinematic form of the equations, we apply an extension of Chow’s theorem to analyze controllability in the strong and weak sense. Further, the connection form for the symmetric version of...

Stochastic sound sources derived from Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solution are recognized in Computational Aeroacoustics as one possible way to efficiently predict broadband sound. In this paper a stochastically forced linear advection-diffusiondissipation equation is introduced. The model provides spectra and anisotropic two-point correlations that otherwise have to be incorporated ...

Data from experiments and direct simulations of turbulence have historically been used to calibrate simple engineering models such as those based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations. In the past few years, with the availability of large and diverse datasets, researchers have begun to explore methods to systematically inform turbulence models with data, with the goal of quant...

Full-scale experimental and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods were used to investigate buoyancy-driven single-sided natural ventilation with large openings. Detailed airflow characteristics inside and outside of the room and the ventilation rate were measured. The experimental data were used to validate two CFD models: Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equation (RANS) modeling and large ...