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    • Advanced study for the numerical resolution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Application to turbulent flows in air curtains 

      Armengol i Sans, Sílvia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-11)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      El present treball exposa un estudi avançat de la resolució numèrica de les equacions multidimensionals de Navier-Stokes mitjançant mètodes computacionals. El projecte ha constat d’un detallat anàlisi teòric, a partir del ...
    • Assessment of the symmetry-preserving regularization model on complex flows using unstructured grids 

      Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2012-05-15)
      Article
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      The main objective of the present paper is the assessment of symmetry-preserving regularization models on unstructured meshes. Three different test cases have been studied: the impinging jet flow, the flow past a circular ...
    • Calibration of Large Eddy Simulation parameters using Approximate Bayesian Computation 

      Botín García-planas, Pablo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-10-20)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   University of Colorado Boulder
      Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) method is used to estimate posterior distributions of model parameters in subgrid-scale (SGS) closures for large eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent flows. The ABC approach avoids the ...
    • Characterization of localized solutions of plane Poiseuille flow in very long domains 

      Valera Pascual, Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-05-24)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The aim of this Bachelor's Thesis is the study of a particular low-energy localized plane Poiseuille solution while minimizing the error introduced by the streamwise periodicity boundary condition. The fact that the ...
    • Determination of the correlation between turbulence intensity and acoustic noise level-two clockwise-turning rotors case 

      Vidal Garcia, Omar (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya / Lodz University of Technology, 2011)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      The aim of this project is to find the correlation between turbulence intensity and acoustic noise level. To achieve this aim a test was performed on the 5th of April 2012 in the acoustic laboratory of the Technical ...
    • Investigation of a novel numerical scheme for high-pressure supercritical fluids turbulence 

      Bernades, Marc; Jofre Cruanyes, Lluís; Capuano, Francesco (2022)
      Research report
      Open Access
      High-pressure supercritical turbulence simulations are strongly susceptible to numerical instabilities. The multi-scale nature of the flow, in conjunction with the nonlinear thermodynamics and the strong density gradients ...
    • Modeling of the trajectory of ice thrown from a wind turbine 

      Rocchi, Elena (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-10-26)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Lunds universitet
      There is a growing number of wind turbines installed in cold temperature zones as a result of the restricted space for new construction. Due to ice deposition on the turbine blades, the increasing installation of wind ...
    • On the flow past a three-element wing: mean flow and turbulent statistics 

      Montalà Sales, Ricard; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (Springer, 2024-07-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      Large eddy simulations (LES) on the flow past the 30P30N three-element high-lift wing at a moderate Reynolds number Rec = 750, 000 and three different angles of attack α = 5, 9 and 23° are conducted. The main focus is on ...
    • On the symmetry-preserving regularization model on complex flows using unstructured grids 

      Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María; Pérez Segarra, Carlos David; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2010)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Traditionally turbulence modeling of industrial flows in complex geometries have been solved using RANS models and unstructured meshes based solvers. The lack of precision of RANS models in these situations and the increase ...
    • Parameter-free symmetry-preserving regularization modeling of a turbulent differentially heated cavity 

      Trias Miquel, Francesc Xavier; Verstappen, R.W.C.P.; Gorobets, Andrei; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Oliva Llena, Asensio (2010-06-23)
      Article
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      Since direct numerical simulations of buoyancy driven flows cannot be computed at high Rayleigh numbers, a dynamically less complex mathematical formulation is sought. In the quest for such a formulation, we consider ...
    • SOD2D: A GPU-enabled spectral finite elements method for compressible scale-resolving simulations 

      Silva, Lucas Gasparino Ferreira da; Spiga, Filippo; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol (2024-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      As new supercomputer architectures become more heavily focused on using hardware accelerators, in particular general-purpose graphical processors, it is therefore relevant that algorithms for computational fluid dynamics, ...
    • Temperature gradient effects on a turbulent channel flow at Ret=400 

      García Berenguer, Marina; Gasparino, Lucas; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (Begell House, 2023)
      Conference report
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      A direct numerical simulation (DNS) of an asymmetrically heated turbulent channel flow has been performed to study the temperature gradient effects on the turbulence. The case has been set as a compressible flow with ...
    • Towards a machine learning model for explicit algebraic Reynolds stress modelling using multi-expression programming 

      Miró Jané, Arnau; Wallin, Stefan; Colombo, Alessandro; Temmerman, Lionel; Wunsch, Dirk; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence, and Conbustion (ERCOFTAC), 2023)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      A novel framework for a 5-term explicit algebraic Reynolds stress model has been proposed, which is suitable for machine learning procedures. Under this framework, high-fidelity datasets have been explored and post-processed. ...
    • Turbulence transition in pulsating pipe flow: shear-thinning effects 

      Dot Casadevall, Laura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-07-12)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Universität Bremen
      In the last years the major cause of death worldwide has turned out to be because of cardiovascular diseases; for instance, owing to the presence of blood turbulence in our vessels. The problem has already been addressed ...
    • Turbulent boundary layer in a 3-element high-lift wing: coherent structures identification 

      Montalà Sales, Ricard; Eiximeno Franch, Benet; Miró Jané, Arnau; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (Springer, 2023)
      Part of book or chapter of book
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      A large eddy simulation (LES) of the flow past a 30P30N high-lift three-element wing is performed at the angle of attack AoA = 9º and a Reynolds number of Re = 750,000, based on the nested chord. Results are validated ...
    • Turbulent statistics and coherent structures in an asymmetrically heated channel flow 

      García Berenguer, Marina; Gasparino, Lucas; Lehmkuhl Barba, Oriol; Rodríguez Pérez, Ivette María (2023)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      A compressible direct numerical simulation (DNS) has been conducted to analyze the behavior of a fully developed turbulent channel flow. The problem has been set at mean friction Reynolds number Ret m = 400 submitted to a ...