Secondary motion in turbulent pipe flow with three-dimensional roughness

L Chan, M MacDonald, D Chung… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
The occurrence of secondary flows is investigated for three-dimensional sinusoidal
roughness where the wavelength and height of the roughness elements are systematically …

The instantaneous structure of secondary flows in turbulent boundary layers

C Vanderwel, A Stroh, J Kriegseis… - Journal of Fluid …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Secondary flows can develop in turbulent boundary layers that grow over surfaces with
spanwise inhomogeneities. In this article, we demonstrate the formation of secondary flows …

From drag-reducing riblets to drag-increasing ridges

LH Von Deyn, D Gatti, B Frohnapfel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Small drag-reducing riblets and larger drag-increasing ridges are longitudinally invariant
and laterally periodic surface structures that differ only in the details of their lateral periodicity …

Rearrangement of secondary flow over spanwise heterogeneous roughness

A Stroh, K Schäfer, B Frohnapfel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Turbulent flow over a surface with streamwise-elongated rough and smooth stripes is
studied by means of direct numerical simulation (DNS) in a periodic plane open channel …

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 …

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence over systematically varied irregular rough surfaces

Y Kuwata, Y Kawaguchi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Lattice Boltzmann direct numerical simulation of turbulent open-channel flows over
randomly distributed hemispheres at is carried out to reveal the influence of roughness …

Direct numerical simulation-based characterization of pseudo-random roughness in minimal channels

J Yang, A Stroh, D Chung, P Forooghi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are used to systematically investigate the applicability of
the minimal-channel approach (Chung et al., J. Fluid Mech., vol. 773, 2015, pp. 418–431) for …

Predicting drag on rough surfaces by transfer learning of empirical correlations

S Lee, J Yang, P Forooghi, A Stroh… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Recent developments in neural networks have shown the potential of estimating drag on
irregular rough surfaces. Nevertheless, the difficulty of obtaining a large high-fidelity dataset …

Scaling of rough-wall turbulence by the roughness height and steepness

GZ Ma, CX Xu, HJ Sung, WX Huang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Scaling of rough-wall turbulence by the roughness height and steepness Page 1 J. Fluid Mech.
(2020), vol. 900, R7, doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.542 Scaling of rough-wall turbulence by the …

Prediction of equivalent sand-grain size and identification of drag-relevant scales of roughness–a data-driven approach

J Yang, A Stroh, S Lee, S Bagheri… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Despite decades of research, a universal method for prediction of roughness-induced skin
friction in a turbulent flow over an arbitrary rough surface is still elusive. The purpose of the …