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20142026
most citedDirect numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow over porous walls

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87 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Elastic turbulence in straight confined geometries

Giulio Foggi Rota, Daulet Izbassarov, Aditya Tekriwal +1

Elastic turbulence (ET) in straight geometries has been extensively studied in idealised configurations such as periodic shear and planar channel flow, yet experiments are typicall…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Coexisting chaos and order in micro-textured elastic flows

Giulio Foggi Rota, Ricardo Arturo Lopez de la Cruz, Simon J. Haward +2

Viscoelastic fluid flows over micro-textured surfaces - densely covered by slender protrusions like cilia lining the body airways or villi covering the intestinal epithelium - unde…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Energy transfer and scale organisation in dense canopy turbulence

Riccardo Bertoncello, Alessandro Chiarini, Giulio Foggi Rota +2

This study identifies the scale-dependent processes that sustain turbulence in dense submerged canopy flows. Using a scale-resolved energy budget, we determine where in space and a…

physics.flu-dyn2026

The ultimate state of elastic turbulence

Piyush Garg, Marco Edoardo Rosti

The asymptotic properties, with vanishing viscosity, of inertial turbulence in Newtonian fluids have been of intense scrutiny over the years. Much less is known about elastic turbu…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Elastic pseudoturbulence induced by low-Galilei settling spheres

Ludovico Fossà, Michele Macaluso, Luca Brandt +1

In this Letter, we show how a suspension of light solid spheres settling through a polymer solution results in a chaotic and highly-intermittent state. By leveraging particle-resol…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Free surfaces in turbulence - A unified framework from water surfaces to elastic solids

Giulio Foggi Rota, Andrea Mazzino, Marco Edoardo Rosti

What do the ocean surface and a swaying flag have in common? Both are deformable surfaces exhibiting chaotic motion when exposed to turbulent flows. Whether such motion is primaril…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Coherent structures in Newtonian and viscoelastic turbulent planar jets

Christian Amor, Adrián Corrochano, Giovanni Soligo +2

The addition of a small amount of long-chain polymers confers viscoelastic properties to Newtonian flows. The resulting non-Newtonian solution now exhibits different dynamics, such…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Reduced-order modeling of a viscoelastic turbulent jet with hybrid machine learning models

Christian Amor, Adrián Corrochano, Marco Edoardo Rosti +1

Adding flexible polymers to a Newtonian solvent confers complex properties to the resulting solution. The additional complexity substantially increases the computational cost of nu…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Beyond Stokes drift -- Lagrangian transport in evolving gravity waves

Tatsuo Izawa, Giulio Foggi Rota, Alessandro Chiarini +1

Finite-amplitude gravity waves at the air-water interface induce net fluid and particle transport, known as Stokes drift. While this mechanism is well understood for steady waves,…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Waves dictate the yo-yoing decay of a viscoelastic mixing layer

Giulio Foggi Rota, Piyush Garg, Jason Tang +1

We find that waves develop in a time-decaying mixing layer of viscoelastic fluid, leading the mean-flow to yo-yo. This is in sharp contrast with Newtonian fluids, where laminar mix…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Turbulent heat transfer enhancement by compliant walls

Morie Koseki, Marco Edoardo Rosti

This study investigates the effect of compliant walls on the turbulent heat transfer in channel flows over viscous-hyperelastic walls. We perform Direct Numerical Simulations, full…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Reduction of Triadic Interactions Suppresses Intermittency and Anomalous Dissipation in Turbulence

Anikat Kankaria, Ritwik Mukherjee, Sugan Durai Murugan +2

We investigate how the defining statistical features of three-dimensional turbulence respond to systematic reductions of the Fourier-space triadic interaction network. Using direct…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A suspension of heavy Kolmogorov-size spheres suppresses the inertial cascade in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

Ludovico Fossà, Marco Edoardo Rosti

The effect of Kolmogorov-size spherical particles on homogeneous and isotropic turbulence is investigated using particle-resolved direct numerical simulations at an unladen Taylor-…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A new form of mixing in turbulent sedimentation

Simone Tandurella, Marco Edoardo Rosti, Stefano Musacchio +1

We study the sedimentation of finite-size inertial particles in a Rayleigh-Taylor-like setup using state-of-the-art direct numerical simulations. The falling particles are observed…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Dynamics of the velocity fluctuations in sedimenting suspensions of rigid fibres

Alessandro Chiarini, Emanuele Gallorini, Marco Edoardo Rosti

We use direct numerical simulations to investigate fluid-solid interactions in suspensions of rigid fibres settling under gravity in a quiescent fluid. The solid-to-fluid density r…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Effect of submerged vegetation on water surface geometry and air-water momentum transfer

Giulio Foggi Rota, Alessandro Chiarini, Marco Edoardo Rosti

Understanding how submerged vegetation modifies the water surface is crucial for modeling momentum exchange between shallow waters and the atmosphere. In particular, quantifying it…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Filament inclination effect on turbulent canopy flows

Shane Nicholas, Mohammad Omidyeganeh, Alfredo Pinelli +3

Inspired by the spontaneous behaviour observed in filamentous layers -- where the balance between flow-induced drag and structural elasticity dictates the filaments' equilibrium st…

physics.flu-dyn2025

The broken link between space and time in elastic turbulence

Giulio Foggi Rota, Rahul K. Singh, Alessandro Chiarini +4

Elastic turbulence (ET), observed in flows of sufficiently elastic polymer solution at small inertia, is characterized by chaotic motions and power-law scaling of energy spectrum (…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Understanding the effect of wall elasticity in turbulent channel flows

M. Koseki, M. S. Aswathy, M. E. Rosti

This study compares turbulent channel flows over elastic walls with those over rough walls, to explore the role of the dynamic change of shape of the wall on turbulence. The compar…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 4 cited

Edge-effects in the turbulent flow over flexible aquatic vegetation

Giulio Foggi Rota, Elisa Tressoldi, Francesco Avallone +1

Riparian vegetation along riverbanks and seagrass along coastlines interact with water currents, significantly altering their flow. To characterise the turbulent fluid motion along…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Elastic turbulence hides in the small scales of inertial polymeric turbulence

Piyush Garg, Marco Edoardo Rosti

Gaining a fundamental understanding of turbulent flows of dilute polymer solutions has been a challenging and outstanding problem for a long time. In this letter, we examine homoge…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 4 cited

The effect of shear-thinning on the scalings and small-scale structures of turbulence

Marco Edoardo Rosti

We study the homogeneous isotropic turbulence of a shear-thinning fluid modeled by the Carreau model and show how the variable viscosity affects the multiscale behaviour of the tur…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Bubbles-induced transition to elasto-inertial turbulence

Hafiz Usman Naseer, Daulet Izbassarov, Marco Edoardo Rosti +1

Interface-resolved direct numerical simulations are performed to investigate bubble-induced transition from laminar to elasto-inertial turbulent (EIT) state in a pressure-driven vi…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 6 cited

Reconfiguration and dynamics of clamped fibers under finite-amplitude surface gravity waves

Giulio Foggi Rota, Alessandro Chiarini, Marco Edoardo Rosti

We investigate the behaviour of a flexible stem completely submerged under a surface gravity wave of finite amplitude using fully resolved direct numerical simulations. By varying…