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Hydrodynamic stability

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Liquid film instability of an internally coated horizontal tube

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex

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The effects of Prandtl number on the nonlinear dynamics of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in two dimensions

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Second-order adjoint-based sensitivity for hydrodynamic stability and control

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Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis is routinely used today to assess efficiently the effect of open-loop control on the linear stability properties of unstable flows. Sensitivity maps identify regions where small-amplitude control is the most effective, i. ...

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Impinging planar jets: hysteretic behaviour and origin of the self-sustained oscillations

Philippe Renaud, François Gallaire, Arnaud Bertsch, Alessandro Bongarzone

The experimental and numerical investigation presented by Bertsch et al. (Phys. Rev. Fluids, vol. 5, 2020a, p. 054202) describes the self-sustained oscillations induced by the interaction of two impinging jets in microfluidic devices. While the oscillatory ...

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Evaluation of a Dynamic Transfer Matrix for a Hydraulic Turbine

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It is well known that hydraulic machines experience various types of flow instabilities causing a negative influence on the system under off-design operations. The transfer matrix method correlating the flow properties in upstream and downstream of hydraul ...

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Field characterization of the negatively buoyant inflow of the Rhône River into Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Koen Blanckaert

River inflows have a major influence on lake and reservoir water quality through their input of momentum, heat, oxygen, sediment, nutrients and contaminants. The fate of these components is controlled by the hydrodynamic processes at the interface between ...

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Swirl number based transposition of flow-induced mechanical stresses from reduced scale to full-size Francis turbine runners

François Avellan, Arthur Tristan Favrel, Christian Landry, Keita Yamamoto, Joao Gomes Pereira Junior

At part load conditions, Francis turbines are subject to the emergence of a hydrodynamic instability in their draft tube, referred to as precessing vortex rope. It induces pressure pulsations in the water passages at the precession frequency of the vortex, ...

2020

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