Drop shedding by shear flow for hydrophilic to superhydrophobic surfaces

AJB Milne, A Amirfazli - Langmuir, 2009 - ACS Publications
A balance of surface science and aerodynamic knowledge is brought to bear to elucidate
the fundamental parameters determining the incipient motion (runback) for a drop exposed …

Flow around circular cylinders with very low aspect ratio

RT Gonçalves, GR Franzini, GF Rosetti… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Experiments on the flow around stationary circular cylinders with very low aspect ratio
piercing the water free surface were carried out in a recirculating water channel. Eight …

Tomographic PIV investigation on near-wake structures of a hemisphere immersed in a laminar boundary layer

H Tu, Z Wang, Q Gao, W She, F Wang… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The near wake of a hemisphere immersed in a laminar boundary layer is studied utilizing
time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry (TPIV). Focus is placed on the three …

Experimental investigation and large-eddy simulation of the turbulent flow past a smooth and rigid hemisphere

JN Wood, G De Nayer, S Schmidt, M Breuer - Flow, Turbulence and …, 2016 - Springer
The objective of the present paper is to provide a detailed experimental and numerical
investigation on the turbulent flow past a hemispherical obstacle (diameter D). For this …

Effects of splitter plates and Reynolds number on the aerodynamic loads acting on a circular cylinder

Y Qiu, Y Sun, Y Wu, Y Tamura - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2014 - Elsevier
Many studies have been undertaken aimed at reducing drag forces and suppressing vortex
shedding from circular cylinders, mainly focusing on the influence of the splitter plate in the …

Vortex shedding from a hemisphere in a turbulent boundary layer

M Manhart - Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, 1998 - Springer
Supercritical turbulent boundary layer flow over a hemisphere with a rough surface (Re=
150000) has been simulated using Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and analyzed using the …

Large-eddy simulation study of Reynolds number effects on the flow around a wall-mounted hemisphere in a boundary layer

Y Cao, T Tamura - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Large-eddy simulations were used to investigate unsteady flows around a wall-mounted
hemisphere as the Reynolds number (Re, based on the diameter of the hemisphere D) …

Wind pressures on a hemispherical dome

TJ Taylor - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 1992 - Elsevier
A comprehensive study of the aerodynamic pressure distribution on hemispherical domes,
in boundary layer flows, including the determination of the mean, standard deviation …

Influence of hemisphere disturbance on laminar boundary layer at low Reynolds numbers

J Zhang, L Shi, Z Tang, X Ma, N Jiang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigate the two-dimensional flow characteristics caused by
hemisphere disturbance in the laminar boundary layer, with the aim of analyzing the …

Solute uptake in aquatic sediments due to current-obstacle interactions

PA Hutchinson, IT Webster - Journal of Environmental Engineering, 1998 - ascelibrary.org
Laboratory experiments are used to examine solute exchange between sediments and the
water column induced by the interaction of a current and a half-buried spherical obstruction …