scholarly journals Estimates for the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations in terms of the Reynolds number

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 065202 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Gibbon ◽  
G. A. Pavliotis
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.-J. Wu ◽  
S.-Y. Lin

AbstractA modified direct-forcing immersed-boundary (IB) pressure correction method is developed to simulate the flows of a falling ellipse. The pressure correct method is used to solve the solutions of the two dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and a direct-forcing IB method is used to handle the interaction between the flow and falling ellipse. For a fixed aspect ratio of an ellipse, the types of the behavior of the falling ellipse can be classified as three pure motions: Steady falling, fluttering, tumbling, and two transition motions: Chaos, transition between steady falling and fluttering. Based on two dimensionless parameters, Reynolds number and the dimensionless moment of inertia, a Reynolds number-inertia moment phase diagram is established. The behaviors and characters of five falling regimes are described in detailed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 813 ◽  
pp. 53-69
Author(s):  
Paolo Luchini ◽  
Renato Tognaccini

Inviscid, unsteady simulations of the roll up of the start-up vortex issuing from a semi-infinite plate are compared with previous simulations of the viscous flow. The inviscid equations were solved by a lumped-vortex method, the two-dimensional, incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in the vorticity–streamfunction formulation modelled the viscous problem. The purpose is to verify whether the irregular behaviour found by the inviscid solution well approximates the unstable evolution of the viscous spiral vortex in the limit of infinitely large time (or equivalently Reynolds number).


1972 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. McDonald ◽  
V. E. Denny ◽  
A. F. Mills

Numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations are obtained for steady two-dimensional flow in the inlet region of both a tube and a channel. The entering flow is considered to be either uniform (u = constant, v = 0) or irrotational (u = constant, ω = 0). Values of Reynolds number Re = u0a/ν range from 0.75 to 2 × 106. An improved method for solving the stream function-vorticity equations of hydrodynamics has been developed. The method is stable at all Reynolds numbers and appears to be computationally superior to previous methods.


1973 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. C. Freeman ◽  
S. Kumar

It is shown that, for a spherically symmetric expansion of a gas into a low pressure, the shock wave with area change region discussed earlier (Freeman & Kumar 1972) can be further divided into two parts. For the Navier–Stokes equation, these are a region in which the asymptotic zero-pressure behaviour predicted by Ladyzhenskii is achieved followed further downstream by a transition to subsonic-type flow. The distance of this final region downstream is of order (pressure)−2/3 × (Reynolds number)−1/3.


1998 ◽  
Vol 371 ◽  
pp. 207-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. VITTORI ◽  
R. VERZICCO

Numerical simulations of Navier–Stokes equations are performed to study the flow originated by an oscillating pressure gradient close to a wall characterized by small imperfections. The scenario of transition from the laminar to the turbulent regime is investigated and the results are interpreted in the light of existing analytical theories. The ‘disturbed-laminar’ and the ‘intermittently turbulent’ regimes detected experimentally are reproduced by the present simulations. Moreover it is found that imperfections of the wall are of fundamental importance in causing the growth of two-dimensional disturbances which in turn trigger turbulence in the Stokes boundary layer. Finally, in the intermittently turbulent regime, a description is given of the temporal development of turbulence characteristics.


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