Publications by Luca Biancofiore

Understanding the destabilizing role for surface tension in planar shear flows in terms of wave interaction

Both surface tension and buoyancy force in stable stratification act to restore perturbed interfaces back to their initial positions. Hence, both are intuitively considered as stabilizing agents. Nevertheless, the Taylor-Caulfield instability is a countere ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Interaction between counterpropagating Rossby waves and capillary waves in planar shear flows

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

A counterintuitive destabilizing effect of the surface tension in planar wakes has been observed by Tammisola et al. ["Effect of surface tension on global modes of confined wake flows," Phys. Fluids 23, 014108 (2011)] and Biancofiore et al. ["Direct numeri ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Direct numerical simulations of two-phase immiscible wakes

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

Tammisola et al (2012 J. Fluid Mech. 713 632-58) have observed a counter-intuitive destabilizing effect of the surface tension in planar wakes by means of a global linear analysis. In the present study, we conduct direct numerical simulation (DNS) of wakes ...

Elsevier2014

Counterpropagating Rossby waves in confined plane wakes

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

In the present work, we revisit the temporal and the spatio-temporal stability of confined plane wakes under the perspective of the counterpropagating Rossby waves (CRWs). Within the context of broken line velocity profiles, each vorticity discontinuity ca ...

American Institute of Physics2012

The influence of shear layer thickness on the stability of confined two-dimensional wakes

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

The influence of confinement onto the inviscid and incompressible linear stability of the family of wakes introduced by Monkewitz [Phys. Fluids 31, 999 (1988)] is examined. The nondimensional parameters of the model, the velocity ratio Λ, defined as ratio ...

2011

Influence of confinement on a two-dimensional wake

François Gallaire, Luca Biancofiore

The spatio-temporal development of an incompressible two-dimensional viscous wake flow confined by two flat slipping plates is investigated by means of direct numerical simulation (DNS), using a spectral Chebyshev multi-domain method. The limit between uns ...

Cambridge University Press2011