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physics.flu-dyn2026

Assimilating rough features: A data-driven framework to infer rough wall properties from sparse experimental data

Martina Formichetti, Uttam Cadambi Padmanaban, Ping He +2

Surface roughness influences turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) primarily through the roughness function and the equivalent sand-grain roughness height \(k_s\). Direct determi…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Mixed data-source transfer learning for a turbulence model augmented physics-informed neural network

Christian Toma, Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, Sean Symon

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative for extracting unknown quantities from experimental data. Despite this potential, much of…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Three-dimensional variational data assimilation of separated flows using time-averaged experimental data

Uttam Cadambi Padmanaban, Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, Sean Symon

We present a novel framework for assimilating planar PIV experimental data using a variational approach to enhance the predictions of the Spalart-Allmaras RANS turbulence model. Ou…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Effects of fetch length on turbulent boundary layer recovery past a step-change in surface roughness

Martina Formichetti, Dea D. Wangsawijaya, Sean Symon +1

Recent studies focusing on the response of turbulent boundary layers (TBL) to a step-change in roughness have provided insight into the scaling and characterisation of TBLs and the…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Energy transfer in turbulent channel flows and implications for resolvent modelling

Sean Symon, Simon J. Illingworth, Ivan Marusic

We analyse the inter-scale transfer of energy for two types of plane Poiseuille flow: the P4U exact coherent state of Park and Graham (2015) and turbulent flow in a minimal channel…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Energy transfer mechanisms and resolvent analysis in the cylinder wake

Bo Jin, Sean Symon, Simon J. Illingworth

Energy transfer mechanisms for vortex shedding behind a 2D cylinder at a Reynolds number of Re=100 are investigated. We first characterize the energy balances achieved by the true…