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Volume 998 - 10 November 2024

Journal of Fluid Mechanics Volume 998 - Issue -
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doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.892 Bi et al. Interactions between a toroidal bubble and a free surface

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JFM Papers

  • Regimes of stratified turbulence at low Prandtl number

  • Kasturi Shah, Gregory P. Chini, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, Pascale Garaud
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 November 2024, A60
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  • Quantifying transport by strongly stratified turbulence in low Prandtl number ($Pr$) fluids is critically important for the development of better models for the structure and evolution of stellar and planetary interiors. Motivated by recent numerical simulations showing strongly anisotropic flows suggestive of a scale-separated dynamics, we perform a multiscale asymptotic analysis of the governing equations. We find that, in all cases, the resulting slow–fast systems take a quasilinear form. Our analysis also reveals the existence of several distinct dynamical regimes depending on the emergent buoyancy Reynolds and Péclet numbers, $Re_b = \alpha ^2 Re$ and $Pe_b = Pr Re_b$, respectively, where $\alpha$ is the aspect ratio of the large-scale turbulent flow structures, and $Re$ is the outer-scale Reynolds number. Scaling relationships relating the aspect ratio, the characteristic vertical velocity and the strength of the stratification (measured by the Froude number $Fr$) naturally emerge from the analysis. When $Pe_b \ll \alpha$, the dynamics at all scales is dominated by buoyancy diffusion, and our results recover the scaling laws empirically obtained from direct numerical simulations by Cope et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 903, 2020, A1). For $Pe_b \ge O(1)$, diffusion is negligible (or at least subdominant) at all scales and our results are consistent with those of Chini et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 933, 2022) for strongly stratified geophysical turbulence at $Pr =O(1)$. Finally, we have identified a new regime for $\alpha \ll Pe_b \ll 1$, in which slow, large scales are diffusive while fast, small scales are not. We conclude by presenting a map of parameter space that clearly indicates the transitions between isotropic turbulence, non-diffusive stratified turbulence, diffusive stratified turbulence and viscously dominated flows, and by proposing parameterisations of the buoyancy flux, mixing efficiency and turbulent diffusion coefficient for each regime.

  • A mathematical model for wind-generated particle–fluid flow fields with an application to the helicopter cloud problem

  • D.J. Needham, S. Langdon
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    05 November 2024, A61
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  • We develop a model for the interaction of a fluid flowing above an otherwise static particle bed, with generally the particles being entrained or detrained into the fluid from the upper surface of the particle bed, and thereby forming a fully two phase fluidized cloud above the particle bed. The flow in this large-scale fluidized region is treated as a two-phase flow, whilst the key processes of entrainment and detrainment from the particle bed are treated by examining the local dynamical force balances on the particles in a thin transition layer at the interface between the fully fluidized region and the static particle bed. This detailed consideration leads to the formation of an additional macroscopic boundary condition at this interface, which closes the two-phase flow problem in the bulk fluidized region above. We then introduce an elementary model of the well-known helicopter brownout problem, and use the theory developed in the first part of the paper to fully analyse this model, both analytically and numerically.

  • Clustering and chaotic motion of heavy inertial particles in an isolated non-axisymmetric vortex

  • Anu V.S. Nath, Anubhab Roy
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    05 November 2024, A62
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  • We investigate the dynamics of heavy inertial particles in a flow field due to an isolated, non-axisymmetric vortex. For our study, we consider a canonical elliptical vortex – the Kirchhoff vortex and its strained variant, the Kida vortex. Contrary to the anticipated centrifugal dispersion of inertial particles, which is typical in open vortical flows, we observe the clustering of particles around co-rotating attractors near the Kirchhoff vortex due to its non-axisymmetric nature. We analyse the inertia-modified stability characteristics of the fixed points, highlighting how some of the fixed points migrate in physical space, collide and then annihilate with increasing particle inertia. The introduction of external straining, the Kida vortex being an example, introduces chaotic tracer transport. Using a Melnikov analysis, we show that particle inertia and external straining can compete, where chaotic transport can be suppressed beyond a critical value of particle inertia.

  • A meso–micro atmospheric perturbation model for wind farm blockage

  • Koen Devesse, Luca Lanzilao, Johan Meyers
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    05 November 2024, A63
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  • As wind farms continue to grow in size, mesoscale effects such as blockage and gravity waves become increasingly important. Allaerts & Meyers (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 862, 2019, pp. 990–1028) proposed an atmospheric perturbation model (APM) that can simulate the interaction of wind farms and the atmospheric boundary layer while keeping computational costs low. The model resolves the mesoscale flow, and couples to a wake model to estimate the turbine inflow velocities at the microscale. This study presents a new way of coupling the mesoscale APM to a wake model, based on matching the velocity between the models throughout the farm. This method performs well, but requires good estimates of the turbine-level velocity fields by the wake model. Additionally, we investigate the mesoscale effects of a large wind farm, and find that aside from the turbine forces and increased turbulence levels, the dispersive stresses due to subgrid flow heterogeneity also play an important role at the entrance of the farm, and contribute to the global blockage effect. By using the wake model coupling, we can explicitly incorporate these stresses in the model. The resulting APM is validated using 27 prior large-eddy simulations of a large wind farm under different atmospheric conditions. The APM and large-eddy simulation results are compared on both mesoscale and turbine scale, and on turbine power output. The APM captures the overall effects that gravity waves have on wind farm power production, and significantly outperforms standard wake models.

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • FLM volume 998 Cover and Front matter

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    03 December 2024, p. f1
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