Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. The main objective of this work is to enhance the micromixing of different species transported through the electrokinetic mechanism applicable in lab-on-a-chip devices used in BioMEMS. In this process,…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. It is known that Stokes’ paradox exhibits in various flow conditions, most notably, in flow past a two-dimensional (2D) circular cylinder. In this study, we provide an example through detailed analytic…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. To improve hydrodynamic stability in a combustor, an unsteady flow analysis method is needed. Hence, the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method based on a large eddy simulation (LES) unsteady flo…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. The aerodynamic forces on a sphere with a rough surface were measured in a water tunnel at a Reynolds number of 7930 and for a range of spinning ratios (α) from 0 to 6.0. The time-averaged flow fields …
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. Hydraulic flushing can increase the efficiency of gas extraction by artificially modifying the coal reservoir. Considering the plastic failure of coal mass, an improved gas–liquid–solid coupling model …
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. This study performs extensive numerical simulations to investigate how the aspect ratio (AR) of a lid-driven cavity influences the onset of elastic instability and elastic turbulence and the subsequent…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. This study is concerned with accurately determining the mean skin friction in a zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer. By assuming a linear relation for the weighted total shear stress in the…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. Through high-fidelity numerical simulation based on the lattice Boltzmann method, we have conducted an in-depth study on the heat and mass transport from an oblate spheroid neutrally suspended in a sim…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. In this study, the effects of entropy layer on the boundary layer over hypersonic blunt cones for a thermochemical equilibrium gas are investigated. The flow and stability characteristics of the entrop…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 3, March 2023. A numerical investigation is conducted on aerodynamic noise of flow past a circular cylinder with different spanwise lengths (0.5πD, πD, 2πD, and 4πD) at Re = 10 000, where D is the diameter of the cyl…