Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, fluid flow around bluff bodies is confined between two
parallel walls. This paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow …

A state-of-the-art review of flows past confined circular cylinders

QD Nguyen, W Lu, L Chan, A Ooi, C Lei - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we have reviewed the state-of-the-art of research on flow past a circular
cylinder symmetrically placed between two parallel plates separated by a finite distance …

Reinforcement-learning-based control of confined cylinder wakes with stability analyses

J Li, M Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This work studies the application of a reinforcement learning (RL)-based flow control
strategy to the flow past a cylinder confined between two walls to suppress vortex shedding …

Comparative analysis of machine learning methods for active flow control

F Pino, L Schena, J Rabault… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Machine learning frameworks such as genetic programming and reinforcement learning
(RL) are gaining popularity in flow control. This work presents a comparative analysis of the …

[HTML][HTML] A staggered space–time discontinuous Galerkin method for the three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations on unstructured tetrahedral …

M Tavelli, M Dumbser - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a novel arbitrary high order accurate semi-implicit space–time
discontinuous Galerkin method for the solution of the three-dimensional incompressible …

Asymmetric wakes in flows past circular cylinders confined in channels

W Lu, D Aljubaili, T Zahtila, L Chan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Asymmetric wakes in flows past circular cylinders confined in channels Page 1 J. Fluid Mech.
(2023), vol. 958, A8, doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.79 Asymmetric wakes in flows past circular cylinders …

Magnetohydrodynamic mixed convection and entropy generation analysis of Al2O3-water nanofluid past a confined circular cylinder

D Sáchica, E Salcedo, C Treviño… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerical simulations are carried out for transient magnetohydrodynamic mixed convective
heat transfer of alumina–water nanofluid flow past an isothermal circular cylinder confined in …

The flow past large numbers of cylinders in tandem

N Hosseini, MD Griffith, JS Leontini - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the flow in a multi-cylinder tandem array. A primary aim is to
build a framework for understanding the flow as the number of cylinders becomes large. Two …

Experimental investigation of flow past a confined bluff body: Effects of body shape, blockage ratio and Reynolds number

X Wang, J Chen, B Zhou, Y Li, Q Xiang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) study of the two-dimensional flow
past a bluff body confined in a channel. Three typical shapes of bluff body with the same …

On the wake flow behind a sphere in a pipe flow at low Reynolds numbers

G Yin, MC Ong - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the flow around a stationary sphere in a
pipe. Seven sphere diameters d= 0.1D–0.9D (D is the diameter of the pipe) are chosen to …