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Chakraborty, Aneek (author)Thermal convection is a phenomenon seen in almost all facets of life, ranging from planetary convection to ocean currents and convection inside the Earth. The physics of thermal convection complicates when a porous wall layer is present. Flow over urban canopies, forest canopies or flow in underground aquifers are classic examples where thermal...master thesis 2023
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Kotturshettar, Sanath (author)Stratified turbulent flows abound in environmental and industrial settings. Examples are atmospheric boundary layer flows, the transport of nutrients and organisms and the mixing of heat and salinity in the oceans, fluid flow in heat exchangers, and the transport of reactants and products in chemical reactions. These examples and many others...master thesis 2023
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Gołyska, Urszula (author)Abrupt and rapid high-amplitude changes in a dynamical system’s states known as extreme events appear in many processes occurring in nature, such as drastic climate patterns, rogue waves, or avalanches. These events often entail catastrophic effects, therefore their description and prediction is of great importance. Nevertheless, because of...master thesis 2022
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Willems, Gersom (author)The growing energy demand and climate change poses a need for alternative energy generation in terms of renewable resources. Renewable energy resources are characterised by their intermittent behaviour. A backup power supply is required that can deliver electricity when the supply from the renewables is not sufficient. Gas turbines operating...master thesis 2022
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Hehner, Marc T. (author), Gatti, Davide (author), Kotsonis, M. (author), Kriegseis, Jochen (author)Two different plasma actuation strategies for producing near-wall flow oscillations, namely the burst-modulation and beat-frequency mode, are characterized with planar particle image velocimetry in quiescent air. Both concepts are anticipated to work as non-mechanical surrogates of oscillating walls aimed at turbulent flow drag reduction,...journal article 2022
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Belligoli, Z. (author)The continuous increase in the number of flights in the last decades caused a steepgrowth of aviation-related pollution to the point that the aviation sector is responsible for3% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Regulators have been slow at catching up withthis problem, and stringent emission targets have been put in place only very...doctoral thesis 2021
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Reurings, C. (author), Koussios, S. (author), Bergsma, O.K. (author), Vergote, K. (author), Paeshuyse, L. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)A realistic wear test was developed for porous thermal insulation systems exposed to high temperature turbulent gas flow, because it is essential for the development of existing and new concepts of such insulation and therefore also for the performance of processes that depend on such insulation. Wear is crucial and often dominant for the...journal article 2021
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Samie, M. (author), Baars, W.J. (author), Rouhi, A. (author), Schlatter, P. (author), Örlü, R. (author), Marusic, I. (author), Hutchins, N. (author)Opposition-control of the energetic cycle of near wall streaks in wall-bounded turbulence, using numerical approaches, has shown promise for drag reduction. For practical implementation, real-time opposition control is only realizable if there is a degree of coherence between the turbulent velocities passing a sensor and the target point...journal article 2020
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Greidanus, A.J. (author)This thesis describes the investigation of the dynamics of turbulent shear flows over non-smooth surfaces. The research was conducted in two parts, related to the experimental facility used in combination with the applied functional surface. The first part describes the experiments of a turbulent Taylor-Couette flow over a...doctoral thesis 2020
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Wubbe, T. (author)This thesis addresses the capabilities and challenges of automated design approaches, specifically for ap-plication in which a combination of heat transfer and flow is needed. The objective is to use automateddesign approaches from literature and to identify the bottlenecks.For this purpose, an industrial thermal-fluid airshower is designed,...master thesis 2020
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Suvarna, Pranav (author)Convective heat transfer finds applications in several domains of industry like heat exchangers, gas turbine blades, IC engine surfaces etc. The surfaces of these heat transfer applications are either naturally rough owing to manufacturing techniques or become rough over a period of time during operation. These rough surfaces usually contain...master thesis 2020
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Karageorgiou, Traianos (author)The graduation project was conducted at the CFD department of Nuclear Research And Consultancy Group (NRG) in Petten. The modeling and simulation of Taylor bubble flow using CFD can contribute significantly to the topic of nuclear reactor safety and in particular, in the emergency cooling of nuclear reactors during a loss of coolant accident, or...master thesis 2020
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Zaat, Loulou (author)Rivers are identified as main sources of plastic litter in oceans. About 65% of the plastic litter is buoyant in fresh waters, meaning it has the capability to float, making transport over rivers relatively easy. A better understanding of how plastic litter is transported via rivers is crucial. Both for quantification and mitigation of the...master thesis 2020
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Nakate, P.A. (author), Lahaye, D.J.P. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author), Talice, Marco (author)The emissions from the industrial furnaces impact the environment. Among the various factories, those having anode baking furnaces are working on reducing the pollutant emissions. The aerodynamics in the furnace influences the emissions due to the high dependence of combustion and radiation phenomena on the mixing characteristics. Therefore,...journal article 2020
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Truong Hong, S. (author), Phan, K.L. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)The significant defensive role of vegetation in general and mangroves in particular for coastal and estuarine regions has been increasingly recognized. However, understanding the shallow flow field in and around the region of vegetation is still limited. In order to gain more insight, a laboratory experiment of a vegetated compound channel...book chapter 2020
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RAMESH KUMAR, KISHAN (author)Optical measurement techniques are widely used in fluid mechanics to measure quantities like velocity, vorticity, and temperature. They are usually non-intrusive visualization techniques that provide a major advantage by not influencing the flow properties. Most of the developed measurement techniques estimate vorticity by computing the...master thesis 2019
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Kaller, Thomas (author), Pasquariello, Vito (author), Hickel, S. (author), Adams, Nikolaus A. (author)We present well-resolved large-eddy simulations of turbulent flow through a straight, high aspect ratio cooling duct operated with water at a bulk Reynolds number of Re<sub>b</sub> = 110 × 10<sup>3</sup> and an average Nusselt number of Nuxz = 371. The geometry and boundary conditions follow an experimental reference case and good agreement...journal article 2019
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Broekema, Y.B. (author), Labeur, R.J. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)Flow separation and its control have been the subject of intensive research for decades. Flow separation occurs when the boundary layer loses contact with the associated confining wall, which is usually caused by a pressure gradient acting against the local flow direction. Numerous strategies exist to control flow separation, and in this...journal article 2019
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Benschop, H.O.G. (author), Greidanus, A.J. (author), Delfos, R. (author), Westerweel, J. (author), Breugem, W.P. (author)We investigate the deformation of a linear viscoelastic compliant coating in a turbulent flow for a wide range of coating parameters. A one-way coupling model is proposed in which the turbulent surface stresses are expressed as a sum of streamwise-travelling waves with amplitudes determined from the stress spectra of the corresponding flow...journal article 2019
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Peeters, J.W.R. (author), Rohde, M. (author)A new friction-heat transfer analogy for the prediction of heat transfer to turbulent fluids at supercritical pressure is presented. This analogy is based on the observation that the predominent events that determine the turbulent heat flux known as hot ejections and cold sweeps have different thermophysical properties. This observation is...journal article 2019