Kathy Prestridge
Phys. Rev. Fluids 3, 110501 (2018) – Published 21 November, 2018
Physical Review Fluids publishes a collection of papers associated with the invited talks presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.
Variable-density has important physical effects on turbulence, including driving mixing from small to large scales. Many compressible and variable-density flow applications cannot be simulated directly. Recent experimental measurements have implications for modeling and underresolved simulations.
When a mixture of noncolloidal particles and oil displaces air inside a Hele-Shaw cell, particles accumulate on the interface and cause fingering by generating an unstable viscosity gradient inside the suspension. A review and new data of the fingering onset and evolution are presented.
The image of a turbulent jet reveals complex spatial patterns, which result from the decay of turbulent eddies into smaller and smaller structures. Here we lay out a road map to describe such patterns as a result of singularities which possess both a nontrivial spatial structure, and exhibit instability as they progress toward smaller and smaller scales.
This paper sketches my personal scientific bubble journey, starting with single-bubble sonoluminescence, continuing with sound emission and scattering of bubbles, cavitation, snapping shrimp, impact events, air entrainment, and surface micro- and nanobubbles, and finally arriving at effective force models for bubbles and dispersed bubbly two-phase flow.
Liquid transport in a dry foam, a deformable porous material, in the presence of an applied electric field, is computed in the limits of rigid and mobile interfaces. The evolution of the liquid distribution is diffusive-like and significantly affected by the hydrodynamic boundary conditions.
Since the development of propagating-wave-based remote sensing more than a century ago, signal analysis has been limited to in-band recorded frequencies. However, this limitation is artificial. A new discovery from the realm of sonar shows that remote sensing is possible at out-of-band frequencies.
Flashback is a key operational and safety issue for modern low-emission burners. With direct numerical simulations we study upstream flame movement through the turbulent flow within a channel and address the marked change in flashback behavior when the fuel and oxidant mixture is not homogeneous.
A scenario in which shear thickening results from a transition of interactions between suspended particles from lubricated to frictional (LF) with increasing stress is described, with a presentation of primary results and a perspective on outstanding questions which are raised by the LF mechanism.
The power density in a rocket engine is 50 . If flame oscillations lock into the acoustic modes of the chamber, the resultant noise can blow up the engine. This paper explains pedagogically, with example code, how best to use adjoint methods to passively control this thermoacoustic instability.
