Advances in Fluid Mechanics

Keynote address Sir James Lighthill and modern fluid mechanics - A memorial tribute Section 1: Experimental versus simulation methods; Development of a numerical model to simulate wave induced flow patterns within a long sea outfall; Measurements and CFX-simulations of a bubbly flow in a vertical pipe; An experimental investigation of saline intrusion in a long sea outfall; Comparison between numerical simulations and experimental investigations of radial flows in rough fracture; Detailed measurements of wave-pattern and nominal wake of a fast displacement ship model; Sedimentation processes in the jet flow of river-lake contact zones; Comparison of experimental and computational investigation of non-Newtonian flow across an expansion. Section 2: Numerical methods in fluid mechanics - A control volume algorithm for incompressible flow computations on unstaggered grids; Prediction of laminar flow over a backward-facing step using a hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian discrete vortex model; Surface gravity currents subject to wind stress; Numerical validation of some wave heights distributions; Computation of incompressible flow over three-dimensional cavities; Laminar entry flow of Herschel-Bulkley fluids in a circular pipe; Stenosis-induced flow disturbances in an artery segment assessed by numerical simulation; BEM for turbulent fluid flow; Finite elements for shallow water equations: stabilized formulations and computational aspects; On the performance of smoothers in coupled multigrid methods for the solution of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on parallel computers; Simulation of 3D fluid jets with application to the Muon Collider target design; Large eddy simulation of turbulent flow in combuster; Semi-Lagrangian semi-implicit regional atmospheric model with multigrid solver; Decomposition method applications to hydrological phenomena modelling. Section 3: Fluid-Structure interaction - Nonlinear hydrodynamic loading on offshore structures; Study of flow past bluff bodies in isolation and in tandem; Topological analysis of a junction vortex flow; Incompressible flow in granulated porous media with null initial velocity: a result of existence and unicity of solution; Application of Zagarola/Smits scaling in turbulent boundary layers with pressure gradient; Pressure fluctuation on structures: experimental data analysis. Section 4: Heat and mass transfer - Three-dimensional weld pool simulation in laser beam welding; A numerical model of the ice melting process; Nonadiabatic compressible flow of humid air around airfoils; Integral method extension to unsteady thermal problems in laminar boundary layer flows; Heat transfer for laminar and transient flow over horizontal circular channel in high pressure conditions; Experimental determination of flow and temperature fields in a shell and tube heat exchanger; Application of code FLOW3D to simulate flow and temperature fields in shell and tube heat exchangers; Unsteady double diffusive convection in a laterally heated stable stratified fluid; Modelling of unsaturated flow with nitrogen and phosphate transport. Section 5: Hydrodynamics - On the use of multipole expansions to approximate the diffraction-radiation wave integrals; The effect of ambient turbulence on a turbulent plane jet in a shallow coflow; Exact solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations; Simulation of viscous stabilization of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability; Analysis of the breakup length of a thin jet penetrating a fluid poolPhysical model study of a vortex separator overflow. Asymptotic analysis of compound, hollow, annular liquid jets; Viscous flow in a channel with a sudden expansion; The nonlinear temporal evolution of a Benney-Lin triad on a round jet; Theoretical and experimental studies of swirling flows in diverging streamtubes; Stochastic modelling of cavitation phenomena in turbulent flow; Turbulence closure models for stratified seas; One-dimensional modelling of the upper ocean and lake; Peculiarities of the momentum transport in laminar liquid film with cross curvature. Section 6: Coastal sea and estuary modelling - Simulation of sediment transport in a small basin with artificial flood events; Water quality modelling for a tidal estuary: application to Hooghly Estuary, east coast of India; Modelling tidal flow in the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire, using a depth averaged flooding-dewatering model with application to the bed load transport of coarse sediments; The transition from rest to geostrophic balance of a dense volume of fluid. Section 7: Wave modelling - Mathematical modelling of ocean waves; Surface water waves against a vertical wall in the presence of an ice-cover. Section 8: Multi-phase flow - Fluid-particle coupling in dilute suspension releases; Modeling of concentrated suspension flow; Three dimensional axisymmetric simulations of fluid instabilities in curved geometry; A consistent Eulerian and Lagrangian approach for dilute particulate flows; Stochastic simulation of sedimentation. Section 9: Acoustics - Prediction of noise generated by orifice plates in liquid systems using a modified form of IEC 534-8-4:1994; High-frequency acoustic emission generated by underwater explosionwith cylindrical symmetry; A new Eulerian computational method for the propagation of short acoustic and electromagnetic pulses. Section 10: Industrial applications - An original numerical model of heat and mass transfer in a concasting machine; Numerical study of condensate flow and heat transfer aspects during laminar film condensation of pure vapours over fin surfaces.