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most citedOn the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability evolving from a deterministic multimode planar interface

123 citations · 548 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

physics.flu-dyn2025

Addressing A Posteriori Performance Degradation in Neural Network Subgrid Stress Models

Andy Wu, Sanjiva K. Lele

Neural network subgrid stress models often have a priori performance that is far better than the a posteriori performance, leading to neural network models that look very promising…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Subgrid Stress Modelling with Multi-dimensional State Space Sequence Models

Andy Wu, Sanjiva K. Lele

Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are becoming increasingly viable due to the growth in computational power the last few decades, and subgrid stress modelling plays a large role in the…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 3 cited

Analysis of Resonance in Jet Screech with Large-Eddy Simulations

Gao Jun Wu, Sanjiva K. Lele, Jinah Jeun

Screech resonance is studied with experimentally validated large-eddy simulation data for a 4:1 rectangular under-expanded jet at three nozzle pressure ratios. The analysis uses sp…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Airfoil trailing-edge noise source identification using large-eddy simulation and wavelet transform

Seongkyu Lee, Donghun Kang, Davy Joao Etienne Brouzet +1

Airfoil noise is predicted and analyzed using wall-resolved large-eddy simulations and wavelet transforms for a NACA 0012 airfoil at a Mach number of 0.06 and a Reynolds number of…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 11 cited

A closure mechanism for screech coupling in rectangular twin jets

Jinah Jeun, Gao Jun Wu, Sanjiva K. Lele

Twin-jet configuration allows two different scenarios to close the screech feedback. For each jet, there is one loop involving disturbances which originate in that jet and arrive a…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Analysis of second-moments and their budgets for Richtmyer-Meshkov instability and variable-density turbulence induced by re-shock

Man Long Wong, Jon R. Baltzer, Daniel Livescu +1

Nonlinear Richtmyer--Meshkov instability and mixing transition induced by a Mach 1.45 shock and subsequent re-shock at an interface between two ideal gases (sulfur hexafluoride and…

physics.comp-ph2021★ 1 cited

Assessment of diffuse-interface methods for compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids

Suhas S. Jain, Michael C. Adler, Jacob R. West +3

This work describes three diffuse-interface methods for the simulation of immiscible, compressible multiphase fluid flows and elastic-plastic deformation in solids. The first metho…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 25 cited

Aeroacoustics of Twin Rectangular Jets Including Screech: Large-eddy Simulations with Experimental Validation

Jinah Jeun, Aatresh Karnam, Gao Jun Wu +3

High-fidelity large-eddy simulations (LES) are performed to investigate aeroacoustic characteristics of jets issuing from twin rectangular nozzles with an aspect ratio of 2:1 at tw…

cs.DC2021★ 12 cited

Scalable Parallel Linear Solver for Compact Banded Systems on Heterogeneous Architectures

Hang Song, Kristen V. Matsuno, Jacob R. West +3

A scalable algorithm for solving compact banded linear systems on distributed memory architectures is presented. The proposed method factorizes the original system into two levels…

physics.flu-dyn2020

The subgrid scale pressure field of scale-enriched Large Eddy Simulations using Gabor modes

Ryan D. Hass, Aditya S. Ghate, Sanjiva K. Lele

With the continuing progress in large eddy simulations (LES), and ever increasing computational resources, it is currently possible to numerically solve the time-dependent and anis…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 1 cited

Drag of a Heated Sphere at Low Reynolds Numbers in the Presence of Buoyancy

Swetava Ganguli, Sanjiva K. Lele

Fully resolved simulations are used to quantify the effects of heat transfer in the presence of buoyancy on the drag of a spatially fixed heated spherical particle at low Reynolds…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 48 cited

Turbulence Enrichment using Physics-informed Generative Adversarial Networks

Akshay Subramaniam, Man Long Wong, Raunak D Borker +2

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used for generating photo-realistic images. A variant of GANs called super-resolution GAN (SRGAN) has already been used succ…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Homogenized Flux-Body Force Treatment of Compressible Viscous Porous Wall Boundary Conditions

Daniel Z. Huang, Man Long Wong, Sanjiva K. Lele +1

A homogenization approach is proposed for the treatment of porous wall boundary conditions in the computation of compressible viscous flows. Like any other homogenization approach,…

physics.flu-dyn2018

High-resolution Navier-Stokes simulations of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability with re-shock

Man Long Wong, Daniel Livescu, Sanjiva K. Lele

The interaction of a Mach 1.45 shock wave with a perturbed planar interface between sulphur hexafluoride and air is studied through high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) and three-d…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 39 cited

A High-Order Weighted Compact High Resolution Scheme with Boundary Closures for Compressible Turbulent Flows with Shocks

A. Subramaniam, M. L. Wong, S. K. Lele

We present an improved high-order weighted compact high resolution (WCHR) scheme that extends the idea of weighted compact nonlinear schemes (WCNS's) using nonlinear interpolations…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 114 cited

High-Order Localized Dissipation Weighted Compact Nonlinear Scheme for Shock- and Interface-Capturing in Compressible Flows

M. L. Wong, S. K. Lele

Simulations of single- and multi-species compressible flows with shock waves and discontinuities are conducted using a weighted compact nonlinear scheme (WCNS) with a newly develop…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 61 cited

Linear and Nonlinear Modeling of a Traveling-Wave Thermoacoustic Heat Engine

Carlo Scalo, Sanjiva K. Lele, Lambertus Hesselink

We have carried out three-dimensional Navier-Stokes simulations, from quiescent conditions to the limit cycle, of a traveling-wave thermoacoustic heat engine (TAE) composed of a lo…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 123 cited

On the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability evolving from a deterministic multimode planar interface

V. K. Tritschler, B. J. Olson, S. K. Lele +3

We investigate the shock-induced turbulent mixing between a light and heavy gas, where a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability (RMI) is initiated by a $\Ma = 1.5$ shock wave. The prescribe…

physics.flu-dyn2013

The Shock and the Turbulence: the story of an interaction

Ivan Bermejo-Moreno, Johan Larsson, Sanjiva K. Lele

Video highlighting multiple features of the interaction between isotropic turbulence and a nominally planar shock wave, normal to the mean flow direction. The visualizations showca…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 73 cited

Ubiquitous Solar Eruptions Driven by Magnetized Vortex Tubes

I. N. Kitiashvili, A. G. Kosovichev, S. K. Lele +2

The solar surface is covered by high-speed jets transporting mass and energy into the solar corona and feeding the solar wind. The most prominent of these jets have been known as s…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 2 cited

Turbulent Kinetic Energy Spectra of Solar Convection from NST Observations and Realistic MHD Simulations

I. N. Kitiashvili, V. I. Abramenko, P. R. Goode +5

Turbulent properties of the quiet Sun represent the basic state of surface conditions, and a background for various processes of solar activity. Therefore understanding of properti…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 34 cited

Vortex Tubes of Turbulent Solar Convection

I. N. Kitiashvili, A. G. Kosovichev, N. N. Mansour +2

Investigation of the turbulent properties of solar convection is extremely important for understanding the multi-scale dynamics observed on the solar surface. In particular, recent…

physics.flu-dyn2011

Large-Eddy Simulation of an over-expanded planar nozzle

Britton J. Olson, Sanjiva K. Lele

This fluid dynamics video shows visualizations of a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of an over-expanded planar nozzle. This configuration represents the experimental setup of Papamosch…