Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. A comparative study on pressure and pressure-correction-based fractional-step methods for incompressible flows is presented. Implicit fractional-step methods are shown to give rise to a splitting error…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Locomotion of aquatic animals involves flapping of their body to generate lift and thrust. Through evolution, they have mastered their ability to move through complex environments in an energy-efficien…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. This paper presents the analysis of the active flow control promoted by low-aspect-ratio cylinders under the effect of a free surface at a low Froude number, modeled as a slip-allowing plane. To advanc…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. A general exact weak solution to the non-linear equation of the conservation of the absolute vorticity in a thin layer of an incompressible medium on a rotating sphere is proposed. It takes into accoun…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. In this paper, the effects of double-submerged breakwaters and trenches on the hydrodynamic performance of an oscillating water column (OWC) are investigated. The multi-domain boundary element method i…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. Fuel/air mixture clouds have important research value in the process industry and military applications. Different from condensed explosions, blast height has a direct impact on the fuel cloud field an…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. The motivation of this paper is to examine the evaluation of local surface stresses and hydrodynamic forces acting on a stationary or moving body using a diffuse interface immersed boundary method (IBM…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. A dielectric drop suspended in an immiscible dielectric fluid of higher conductivity can spontaneously generate the so-called Quincke rotation (a rotating activity that a weakly conducting drop/solid p…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. An experimental study was conducted to study the effects of rounded (RL) and squared leading edge (SL) on the time-averaged and temporal characteristics around a slanted-back Ahmed body. Measurements w…
Physics of Fluids, Volume 35, Issue 4, April 2023. The solid–fluid two-phase flow with coarse particles is an important research object in the two-phase transportation field, such as deep-sea mining. This paper adopts the resolved computational fluid d…