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1. How do viscous effects and surface geometry influence flow patterns and energy dissipation in free-surface viscous flows past obstacles?
This theme focuses on the interaction between viscous free-surface flows and immobile obstructions, particularly cylinders and barriers, accounting for fluid properties, obstacle shape, and surface effects. Understanding flow structure such as pond formation, dry regions, vortex shedding, and forces on obstacles is critical for engineering applications like lava flow diversion, coastal and hydraulic engineering, and barrier design.
Key finding: Employing a lubrication model combined with experimental validation, this work quantifies how viscous flow depth is perturbed by cylinders of various cross-sections on an inclined plane. Crucially, it finds ponding upstream... Read more
Key finding: By comparing multiple sophisticated numerical solvers (meshfree SPH and mesh-based finite volume methods) for low-Reynolds-number viscous flow past cylinders with free surfaces, this study establishes benchmarks capturing... Read more
Key finding: Introducing a robust two-way dynamic coupled numerical framework combining Large Eddy Simulation, Volume-of-Fluid surface tracking, and Discrete Element Method, this paper accurately simulates the interaction of moving solids... Read more
Key finding: Utilizing a meshfree Finite Pointset Method to solve incompressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with Kirchhoff-Love theory for flexible sheet dynamics, this study successfully simulates interaction between viscous... Read more
2. What are the mechanisms and energy pathways governing viscous dissipation and free surface oscillations in turbulent and breaking free-surface flows?
This theme investigates the physical origins and mathematical characterization of energy dissipation in turbulent free-surface flows, including wave breaking, turbulence-induced oscillations, and complex surface deformations. Insights into the partitioning of viscous dissipation into enstrophy and surface deformation components, coupled with models for oscillons and spatial correlation patterns, enable improved understanding of flow structure and energy transfer in natural and engineered shallow turbulent flows.
Key finding: By decomposing viscous dissipation into an enstrophy and free-surface deformation term using meshless SPH techniques, the study reveals that in large-amplitude breaking waves both contributions become comparable. In gravity... Read more
Key finding: Proposing a model interpreting free surface roughness as an ensemble of spatially and temporally distributed oscillons undergoing vertical simple harmonic motion, the work explains oscillatory spatial correlation patterns... Read more
3. How can numerical and experimental approaches be combined to advance modeling of free surface flows and their interaction with structures under realistic boundary and flow conditions?
This theme covers numerical method development, including novel boundary conditions, meshfree algorithms, and fluid-structure interaction schemes, validated by detailed laboratory experiments for free-surface flows. It addresses challenges such as non-reflective boundary treatment, coupled moving solids, and advanced turbulence modeling, enabling robust and accurate simulations of complex flow-structure systems critical to environmental, civil, and hydraulic engineering applications.
Key finding: Deriving boundary conditions based on shallow water Riemann variable theory, this work implements effective non-reflective boundaries in volume-of-fluid (VOF) Navier-Stokes simulations, preventing artificial wave reflections... Read more
Key finding: As detailed above, this work integrated Large Eddy Simulation, Volume-of-Fluid tracking, and Discrete Element Method in a mesh-based fixed grid to model two-way fluid-solid interactions including free surface dynamics,... Read more
Key finding: As elaborated previously, the meshfree FPM coupled with elastic rod theory enables simulations of flexible structures interacting with incompressible free-surface flows, providing an alternative to mesh-based methods,... Read more
Key finding: Introducing a finite-volume, high-order WENO shock-capturing scheme on a vertically dynamic coordinate system, this paper offers a robust 3D non-hydrostatic Navier-Stokes solver with an integral formulation facilitating... Read more