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Enhancing wall-to-wall heat transport with unsteady flow perturbations
Silas Alben, Xiaojia Wang, Nicole Vuong
We determine unsteady flow perturbations that are optimal for enhancing the rate of heat transfer between hot and cold walls (i.e. the Nusselt number Nu), under the constraint of f…
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Wavy optimal flows for heat transfer in channels
Shivani Prabala, Silas Alben
We compute incompressible two-dimensional fluid flows that maximize the rate of heat transfer from the walls of a straight channel given a specified flow input power , wher…
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Falling plates with leading-edge vortex shedding
Yu Jun Loo, Silas Alben
We develop a new numerical method for thin plates falling in inviscid fluid that allows for leading-edge vortex shedding. The inclusion of leading-edge shedding restores physical d…