activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Drag penalty during relaminarization and Kelvin-Helmholtz-promoted retransition in an accelerating turbulent boundary layer over initially drag-reducing riblets

Benjamin Savino, Wen Wu

Direct numerical simulations of an accelerating turbulent boundary layer (TBL) over a smooth wall and a wall fully covered with streamwise-aligned riblets are performed to investig…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Improving boundary-layer separation prediction by an IDDES turbulence model using a pressure-gradient sensor

Benjamin S. Savino, Kevin Patrick Griffin, Bumseok Lee +3

This work extends a pressure-gradient sensor for boundary-layer separation originally developed for the shear-stress transport Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model (…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Attached Decelerating Turbulent Boundary Layers over Riblets

Benjamin S. Savino, Amirreza Rouhi, Wen Wu

Turbulent boundary layers over riblets subjected to adverse pressure gradients (APGs) are investigated by direct numerical simulation. Multiple APG strengths and riblet sizes are e…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Separation of a Laminar Boundary Layer Subjected to Pressure Gradients with Spanwise Variations

John Marshall Cooper, Benjamin S. Savino, Benjamin Kellum Cooper +1

The characteristics of three-dimensional laminar separation bubbles (LSBs), compared with their quasi-two-dimensional counterparts, are studied using direct numerical simulation. A…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Pressure-Induced Separation of a Laminar Boundary Layer over a Partially-Slip Wall

Benjamin Kellum Cooper, Benjamin S. Savino, John Marshall Cooper +2

The characteristics of pressure-induced laminar separation bubbles (LSBs) over a partially-slip wall, compared with that over a canonical no-slip wall, are studied using direct num…