Unsteady critical liquid sheet flows

M Girfoglio, F De Rosa, G Coppola… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The unsteady global dynamics of a gravitational liquid sheet interacting with a one-sided
adjacent air enclosure (commonly referred to as nappe oscillation configuration) is …

Global dynamics analysis of nappe oscillation

F De Rosa, M Girfoglio, L de Luca - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The unsteady global dynamics of a gravitational liquid sheet interacting with a one-sided
adjacent air enclosure, typically referred to as nappe oscillation, is addressed, under the …

Disturbance growth in two-fluid channel flow: The role of capillarity

P Yecko - International journal of multiphase flow, 2008 - Elsevier
This work examines the role of capillarity in the non-modal linear stability properties of three-
dimensional disturbances in sheared two-layer flow of immiscible fluids of similar density …

Surface tension effects on the motion of a free-falling liquid sheet

G Coppola, F De Rosa, L de Luca - Physics of Fluids, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The stationary motion of a liquid curtain falling under the effects of inertia, gravity, and
surface tension is analyzed. An original equation governing the streamwise distribution of …

Modal versus nonmodal linear stability analysis of river dunes

C Camporeale, L Ridolfi - Physics of Fluids, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
When a free surface turbulent shear flow interacts with a deformable cohesionless sediment
bottom, dune patterns can arise and perform a complex time evolution. These bed forms are …

Transient growth induces unexpected deterministic spatial patterns in the Turing process

L Ridolfi, C Camporeale, P D'Odorico… - Europhysics …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Turing models are often invoked to explain spatial pattern formation in a number of physical,
chemical and biological processes. Pattern occurrence is generally investigated through a …

Nonnormality and transient behavior of the de Saint‐Venant‐Exner equations

C Camporeale, L Ridolfi - Water resources research, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow‐water flows on fixed and movable beds play an important role in both hydrology
and river morphodynamics, and several efforts have been devoted to investigating their …

An Exploratory Analysis of the Transient and Long‐Term Behavior of Small Three‐Dimensional Perturbations in the Circular Cylinder Wake

S Scarsoglio, D Tordella… - Studies in Applied …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
An initial‐value problem (IVP) for arbitrary small three‐dimensional vorticity perturbations
imposed on a free shear flow is considered. The viscous perturbation equations are then …

Non-modal dynamics before flow-induced instability in fluid–structure interactions

G Coppola, L de Luca - Journal of sound and vibration, 2010 - Elsevier
A theoretical investigation of the subcritical dynamics of typical fluid–structure interactions is
carried out by applying the linear non-modal operators theory combined with direct …

Global eigenmodes of free-interface vertical liquid sheet flows

M Girfoglio, F De Rosa, G Coppola… - WIT Transactions on …, 2013 - witpress.com
The global dynamics of unsteady free-interface vertical liquid sheet flows is studied, where
the dynamics is termed global because it refers to the whole fluid system. The formal …