Multiscale Turbulent Transport

• Main Author: Afonso, Marco Martins (auth)
• Other Authors: Gama, Sílvio (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: History of engineering & technology; weak turbulence; chaotic advection; n/a; channel flow; Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS); recirculation bubble; Euler equations; relaxation filtering; incompressible fluid; Runge-Kutta (RK4); wall-resolved Large Eddy Simulation (LES); 3D perturbations of 2D steady base flow; OpenFOAM; separation and reattachment; compressible flow; cascade; turbulence models; turbulence; intermittency; WENO schemes; PISO; time-dependent diffusion coefficient; magnetic mode; multiscale; variable density flow; transient evolution; nematic electroconvection; direct numerical simulation; Navier-Stokes equations (RANS); energy transfer; alpha-effect; linear stability analysis; warm cloud top mixing; eddy viscosity; Rayleigh-Bènard convection; baroclinic vortex generation; eddy diffusivity; turbulence theory; cloud micro-physics; structural sensitivity; droplets; optimal control; Lagrangian chaos; streak lift-up; incompressibility; breakage model; turbulent-wake and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities; defect turbulence; Rayleigh-Taylor instability; Padé approximant; 25° backward-slanted step; implicit LES
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Turbulent transport is currently a prominent and ongoing investigation subject at the interface of methodologies from theory to numerical simulations and experiments, and it covers several spatiotemporal scales. Mathematical analysis, physical modelling, and engineering applications represent different facets of a classical, long-standing problem that is still far from being thoroughly comprehended. The goal of this Special Issue is to outline recent advances of such subjects as multiscale analysis in turbulent transport processes, Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of turbulence, advection of particles and fields in turbulent flows, ideal or nonideal turbulence (unstationary/inhomogeneous/anisotropic/compressible), turbulent flows in biofluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics, and the control and optimization of turbulent transport. The SI is open to regular articles, review papers focused on the state of the art and the progress made over the last few years, and new research trends.