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    • From travelling waves to mild chaos: a supercritical bifurcation cascade in pipe flow 

      Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Eckhardt, Bruno (2012-10-25)
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      We study numerically a succession of transitions in pipe Poiseuille flow that leads from simple travelling waves to waves with chaotic time-dependence. The waves at the origin of the bifurcation cascade possess a shift-reflect ...
    • Fully nonlinear mode competition in magnetised Taylor-Couette flow 

      Ayats López, Roger; Deguchi, Kengo; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Meseguer Serrano, Álvaro (2020-08-25)
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      We study the nonlinear mode competition of various spiral instabilities in magnetised Taylor-Couette flow. The resulting finite-amplitude mixed-mode solution branches are tracked using the annular-parallelogram periodic ...
    • Histeretical behaviour of two-dimensional vortex shedding past the NACA0012 airfoil at ultra-low Reynolds number 

      Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2022)
      Conference report
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      We unfold the complex transition route from steady to chaotic dynamics of the two-dimensional flow past the NACA0012 airfoil upon increasing the angle of attack a at the ultra-low Reynolds number Re = 5300. Hopf, forward ...
    • Instability mechanisms and transition scenarios of spiral turbulence in Taylor-Couette flow 

      Meseguer Serrano, Álvaro; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Àvila Cañellas, Marc; Marqués Truyol, Francisco (2009-10)
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      Alternating laminar and turbulent helical bands appearing in shear flows between counterrotating cylinders are accurately computed and the near-wall instability phenomena responsible for their generation identified for the ...
    • Large eddy simulation of optimal synthetic jet actuation on a SD7003 airfoil in post-stall conditions 

      Monshi Tousi, Navid; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2022-08)
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      Aerodynamic performances may be optimised by the appropriate tuning of Active Flow Control (AFC) parameters. For the first time, we couple Genetic Algorithms (GA) with an unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) ...
    • Mean structure of the supercritical turbulent spiral in Taylor–Couette flow 

      Wang, Baoying; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Ayats López, Roger; Deguchi, Kengo; Meseguer Serrano, Álvaro (Royal Society, 2023-03-13)
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      The large-scale laminar/turbulent spiral patterns that appear in the linearly unstable regime of counter-rotating Taylor–Couette flow are investigated from a statistical perspective by means of direct numerical simulation. ...
    • NACA 2412 performance modification via using AFC 

      Summ, Thorsten; Prakash, Bhanu; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Wierschem, Andreas; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2017)
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      The NACA 2412 profile was numerically studied via employing 2D-DNS and implementing Active Flow Control (AFC), the Reynolds number considered was 6757, being the angle of attack of 8º. Initially, the basic flow without ...
    • New applications of numerical simulation based on lattice Boltzmann method at high Reynolds numbers 

      An, Bo; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Sang, WM (2020-03-15)
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      In order to study the flow behavior at high Reynolds numbers, two modified models, known as the multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) and large-eddy-simulation lattice Boltzmann method (LES-LBM), have ...
    • Numerical investigation on the flow around a square cylinder with an upstream splitter plate at low Reynolds numbers 

      An, Bo; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Sang, W.M.; Xi, C. (2020-03-13)
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      The present study focuses on the flow over a 2D square cylinder with a plate placed in front of it. An in-house code using the lattice Boltzmann method was employed for all the simulations presented. Few cases were simulated ...
    • Onset of temporal dynamics within a low reynolds-number laminar fluidic oscillator 

      Sarwar, Wasim; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2021-02-18)
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      We investigate the onset of temporal dynamics of a fluidic oscillator (FO) in the laminar regime at very low Reynolds number ( where and are the velocity and channel height at inlet, and is the kinematic viscosity of the ...
    • Optimization of synthetic jet actuation on a SD7003 airfoil in stall conditions 

      Monshi Tousi, Navid; El Mansy, Reda; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria (2022)
      Conference report
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      We optimise a set of Synthetic Jet (SJ) Active Flow Control (AFC) parameters on a SD7003 airfoil in order to maximise lift and aerodynamic efficiency. 2D-RANS with the Spallart Almaras (SA) turbulence model is employed in ...
    • Otterboard hydrodynamic performance testing in flume tank and wind tunnel facilities 

      Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Prat Farran, Joana d'Arc; Notti, Emilio; Sala, Antonello (2018-02-01)
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      © 2017 Elsevier LtdTwo pelagic otterboards, previously tested in a wind tunnel, have been tested in a flume tank prior to their analysis in real working conditions in sea trials. This intermediate step aims at providing ...
    • Parametric analysis of active flow control using steady suction and steady blowing 

      Prakash, Bhanu; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria (2017)
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      Active Flow Control is implemented over NACA 2412 airfoil using Steady Suctionand Steady Blowing techniques. The pre-stall angle of attack (AOA) 12 0 is studied at a high Reynolds number (Re chord ) of 3.1*10 6 for ...
    • Parametric analysis of the flow past a square cylinder in the interface of two different-velocity streams 

      Elmansy, Reda Mohamed Yousyf Abdallah; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Sarwar, Wasim; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2024-05-13)
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      We address the linear stability of the two-dimensional incompressible flow past a square cylinder immersed in the wake of an upstream splitter plate, which separates two streams of different velocities, UT (top) and UB ...
    • PROPULSIÓ AERONÀUTICA (Examen parcial, 2n quadrimestre) 

      Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2024-04-02)
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    • PROPULSIÓ AERONÀUTICA (Examen parcial, 2n quadrimestre) 

      Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-04-12)
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    • Self-sustainment of coherent structures in counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow 

      Wang, Baoying; Ayats, Roger; Deguchi, Kengo; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Meseguer Serrano, Álvaro (Cambridge University Press, 2022-11-25)
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      We investigate the local self-sustained process underlying spiral turbulence in counter-rotating Taylor–Couette flow using a periodic annular domain, shaped as a parallelogram, two of whose sides are aligned with the ...
    • Shear instabilities in Taylor-Couette flow 

      Meseguer Serrano, Álvaro; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando; Marqués Truyol, Francisco; Àvila Cañellas, Marc (Springer, 2009-09-09)
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      Subcritical instabilities in small gap Taylor-Couette (TCF) problem are studied numerically when both cylinders rotate in opposite directions. The computations are carried out for a radius ratio A first exploration is ...
    • Square cavity flow driven by two mutually facing sliding walls 

      An, Bo; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Sang, Weimin; Li, Dong; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2023-07)
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      We investigate the flow inside a 2D square cavity driven by the motion of two mutually facing walls independently sliding at different speeds. The exploration, which employs the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), extends on ...
    • Square cylinder downstream of two different-velocity streams 

      El Mansy, Reda; Monshi Tousi, Navid; Bergadà Granyó, Josep Maria; Mellibovsky Elstein, Fernando (2022)
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      We study the flow past a square cylinder immersed in the wake of an upstream splitter plate separating two different-velocity streams. The bottom stream Reynolds number, ReB = 56 is kept constant for all cases, while the ...