Transition to turbulence, small disturbances, and sensitivity analysis I: A motivating problem

For over 100 years, researchers have attempted to predict transition to turbulence in fluid flows by analyzing the spectrum of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations. However, for many simple flows this approach fails to match experimental results. Recently, new scenarios for transition have been proposed that are based on the interaction of the linearized equations of motion with small disturbances to the flow system. These new “mostly linear” theories have increased our understanding of the transition process, but the role of nonlinearity has not been explored in detail. This paper is the first of a two part work in which sensitivity analysis is used to study the effects of small disturbances on transition to turbulence. In this part, we study a highly sensitive one-dimensional Burgers' equation as a motivating problem. Sensitivity analysis is used to predict the large changes in solutions in the presence of a small disturbance. Also, sensitivity analysis is shown to provide more information about the disturbed nonlinear problem than a purely linear analysis of the problem. In the second part of this work, this analysis will be extended to the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations to show that small disturbances have great potential to trigger transition to turbulence.     

A Parallel 3D Unsteady Flow Analysis in an Asymmetrically Constricted Vessel

In this study, parallel computation of unsteady incompressible flow in an asymmetrically constricted 3D vessel has been presented. A time accurate cell centered finite volume method (FVM) in conjunction with pseudo-compressibility technique and Roe's flux difference splitting of nonlinear terms has been employed for solving the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations on the multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) machine VPP700. The influence of Reynolds' number ( Re ) and the Strouhal number ( St ) on flow dynamic factors like wall pressure (WP), wall shear stress (WSS), central axis velocity (CAV), etc., have been analyzed. Three-dimensional (3D) features in the formation and detachment of separation zones, which are sensitive to both Re and St have been noticed on the diverging wall of the constriction.     

Compressible navier-stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity, vacuum and gravitational force in the case of general pressure

This is a continuation of the article（Comm.Partial Differential Equations 26（2001）965）.In this article,the authors consider the one-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with gravitational force,fixed boundary condition,a general pressure and the density-dependent viscosity coefficient when the viscous gas connects to vacuum state with a jump in density.Precisely,the viscosity coefficient μ is proportional to ρ^θ and 0〈θ〈1/2,where ρ is the density,and the pressure P=P（ρ）is a general pressure.The global existence and the uniqueness of weak solution are proved.     

EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS RESULTS FOR VISCOUS, HEAT-CONDUCTING 3-D FLUID WITH VACUUM

We prove the local existence and uniqueness of the strong solution to the 3-D full Navier-Stokes equations whose the viscosity coefficients and the thermal conductivity coefficient depend on the density and the temperature. The initial density may vanish in an open set and the domain could be bounded or unbounded. Finally, we show the blow-up of the smooth solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in R^n （n 〉 1） when the initial density has compactly support and the initial total momentum is nonzero.     

使用槽道平均模型的多叶片排N-S方程并行计算

1前言多叶片排三元粘性计算，正在成为压气机、涡轮设计的重要工具。与混合平面模型山相比，槽道平均模型p］能够更加精确地模拟动静叶片间相互作用。它减少了内边界信息传递积累误差，增强了计算程序的鲁棒性。国内很多单位开展了有关的研究工作［‘－’］。本文发展了使用槽道平均模型多叶片N－S方程并行计算程序，并对一多级压气机设计中间方案的前3级进行了试算。2关于槽道周向平均模型这一模型是由Ad。mCZyk［’l提出，它不但被应用于三维直接计算数值模拟，其中的一些基本概念还曾被应用于两类流面迭代平均SZ流面计算。其主要思路…     

两同心球间旋转流动类Lorenz方程组的静态分歧

对同心球间旋转流动的N av ier-S tokes方程谱展开后进行三模态截断,讨论了所得到的类Lorenz型方程组的分歧问题.给出了静态奇异点的条件,并计算出解分支.首先,简要介绍了Lorenz方程组以及用Lorenz截断法讨论非线性问题的意义,其次,推导同心球间旋转流动N av ier-S tokes方程的流函数-涡度形式,最后,讨论同心球间旋转流动的类Lorenz型方程组的分歧问题.     

On the rotating Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions

The stationary and nonstationary rotating Navier-Stokes equations with mixed boundary conditions are investigated in this paper. The existence and uniqueness of the solutions are obtained by the Galerkin approximation method. Next, θ-scheme of operator splitting algorithm is applied to rotating Navier-Stokes equations and two subproblems are derived. Finally, the computational algorithms for these subproblems are provided.     

On non-Newtonian p-fluids. The pseudo-plastic case

In the following we study a class of stationary Navier-Stokes equations with shear dependent viscosity, under the non-slip (Dirichlet) boundary condition. We consider pseudo-plastic fluids. A fluid is said pseudo-plastic, or shear thinning, if in Eq. (1.1) below one has p<2. We are interested in global (i.e., up to the boundary) regularity results, in dimension n=3, for the second order derivatives of the velocity and the first order derivatives of the pressure. We consider a cubic domain Ω and impose the non-slip boundary condition only on two opposite faces. On the other faces we assume periodicity, as a device to avoid effective boundary conditions. This choice is made so that we work in a bounded domain Ω and simultaneously with a flat boundary.     

Unstructured-grid finite-volume discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations based on high-resolution difference schemes

An unstructured-grid discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations based on the finite volume method and high-resolution difference schemes in time and space is described as applied to fluid dynamics problems in two and three dimensions. The control volume is defined as the cell-vertex median dual control volume. The fluxes through the faces of internal and boundary control volumes are written identically, which simplifies their software implementation. The gradient and the pseudo-Laplacian are calculated at the midpoint of a control volume face by using relations adapted to the computations on a strongly stretched grid in the boundary layer.