Predicting the drag of rough surfaces

D Chung, N Hutchins, MP Schultz… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Reliable full-scale prediction of drag due to rough wall-bounded turbulent fluid flow remains
a challenge. Currently, the uncertainty is at least 10%, with consequences, for example, on …

Flow over closely packed cubical roughness

HHA Xu, SJ Altland, XIA Yang, RF Kunz - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Cube arrays are one of the most extensively studied types of surface roughness, and there
has been much research on cubical roughness with low-to-moderate surface coverage …

Turbulent boundary layer flow over regularly and irregularly arranged truncated cone surfaces

KM Womack, RJ Volino, C Meneveau… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Aiming to study the rough-wall turbulent boundary layer structure over differently arranged
roughness elements, an experimental study was conducted on flows with regular and …

On the turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate at moderate Reynolds numbers

F Scarano, MC Jacob, X Carbonneau, ER Gowree - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Two separate experimental campaigns of a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer
under approximately zero-pressure-gradient at moderate Reynolds numbers (⁠ 1700< R e …

Investigation on abrasive-wall collision mechanism and the universal design method for constraint module in soft abrasive flow polishing

T Wang, D Tan, W Xu, C Wang, Y Tan… - The International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The constraint module design for soft abrasive flow (SAF) polishing is a critical factor in
determining the polishing quality of the workpiece surface. It is of significant scientific and …

A simplified photogrammetry procedure in oil-film interferometry for accurate skin-friction measurement over arbitrary geometries

I Gluzman, P Gray, K Mejia, TC Corke, FO Thomas - Experiments in Fluids, 2022 - Springer
An accurate and straightforward skin-friction measurement procedure over a three-
dimensional (3D) bump geometry is proposed. The procedure employs oil-film …

[HTML][HTML] Characteristics of turbulent boundary layers generated by different tripping devices

N Freidoonimehr, A Jafari, M Arjomandi - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we employ a high-fidelity flow visualisation technique to investigate the
resemblance between a turbulent boundary layer generated in a lab environment with a …

Turbulent boundary layer flow over a three-dimensional sinusoidal surface

CI Chan, RC Chin - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
The sinusoidal roughness effect is investigated using a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of
a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) over three-dimensional sinusoidal …

Assessment of aerodynamic roughness parameters of turbulent boundary layers over barnacle-covered surfaces

T Medjnoun, M Aguiar Ferreira, R Reinartz… - Experiments in …, 2023 - Springer
Full-scale drag penalty predictions of flows over rough walls require surface roughness
characterisation from laboratory experiments or numerical simulations. In either approach, it …

Boundary layer hydrodynamics of patchy biofilms

EAK Murphy, JM Barros, MP Schultz, KA Flack… - Biofouling, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Algal biofilms, ubiquitous in aquatic systems, reduce the performance of engineered
systems and alter ecosystem processes. Biofilm morphology is dynamic throughout …