Jens Eggers, James E. Sprittles, Jacco H. Snoeijer
{"title":"Coalescence Dynamics","authors":"Jens Eggers, James E. Sprittles, Jacco H. Snoeijer","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-044919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-044919","url":null,"abstract":"The merging of two fluid drops is one of the fundamental topological transitions occurring in free surface flow. Its description has many applications, for example, in the chemical industry (emulsions, sprays, etc.), in natural flows driving our climate, and for the sintering of materials. After the reconnection of two drops, strongly localized surface tension forces drive a singular flow, characterized by a connecting liquid bridge that grows according to scaling laws. We review theory, experiment, and simulation of the coalescence of two spherical drops for different parameters and in the presence of an outer fluid. We then generalize to other geometries, such as drops spreading on a substrate and in Hele–Shaw flow, and we discuss other types of mass transport, apart from viscous flow. Our focus is on times immediately after reconnection and on the limit of initially undeformed drops at rest relative to one another.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetries in Nominally Symmetric Flows","authors":"Owen J.H. Williams, Alexander J. Smits","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-030124-045719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-030124-045719","url":null,"abstract":"Many flows that are expected to be symmetric are actually observed to be asymmetric. The appearance of asymmetry in the face of no particular cause is a widespread although underappreciated occurrence. This rather puzzling and sometimes frustrating phenomenon can occur in wide-angle diffusers, over the forebody of axisymmetric bodies at high angles of attack, in the wake downstream of streamlined as well as bluff bodies, and in the flow over three-dimensional bumps and ramps. We review some notable examples and highlight the extreme sensitivity of many such flows to small disturbances in the body geometry or the incoming flow. Some flows appear to be permanently asymmetric, while others are bistable on timescales that are orders of magnitude longer than any convective timescale. Convective or global instabilities can occur, bistability is common, and mode interactions become important when multiple similar but distinct timescales and length scales are present. Our understanding of these phenomena is still very limited, and further research is urgently required; asymmetries in otherwise symmetric flows can have serious real-world consequences on vehicle control and performance.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermoacoustic Instability in Combustors","authors":"Aimee S. Morgans, Dong Yang","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-032828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-032828","url":null,"abstract":"Thermoacoustic instability is a flow instability that arises due to a two-way coupling between acoustic waves and unsteady heat release rate. It can cause damaging, large-amplitude oscillations in the combustors of gas turbines, aeroengines, rocket engines, etc., and the transition to decarbonized fuels is likely to introduce new thermoacoustic instability problems. With a focus on practical thermoacoustic instability problems, especially in gas turbine combustors, this review presents the common types of combustor and burner geometry used. It discusses the relevant flow physics underpinning their acoustic and unsteady flame behaviors, including how these differ across combustor and burner types. Computational tools for predicting thermoacoustic instability can be categorized into direct computational approaches, in which a single flow simulation resolves all of the most important length scales and timescales, and coupled/hybrid approaches, which couple separate computational treatments for the acoustic waves and flame, exploiting the large disparity in length scales associated with these. Examples of successful computational prediction of thermoacoustic instability in realistic combustors are given, along with outlooks for future research in this area.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Naval Engineering Pioneer Raye J. Montague (1935–2018)","authors":"Jaye Falls","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-040124-112941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-040124-112941","url":null,"abstract":"Raye Jean Montague (1935–2018) was a computer programmer and self-taught engineer who was at the forefront of modernizing naval architecture and naval engineering through the use of computer-aided design. In this biographical review, she is referred to as Montague, the surname she had for much of her professional life. Since she was a working engineer rather than a scholar, she did not create a publication record by which her achievements can be easily tracked, but her name appears in committee memberships, conference and working group proceedings, and other such interstices of computer-aided ship design. This key contributor to computer-aided design and manufacturing and to naval engineering is well worth getting to know.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141725762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nagi N. Mansour, Francesco Panerai, Jean Lachaud, Thierry Magin
{"title":"Flow Mechanics in Ablative Thermal Protection Systems","authors":"Nagi N. Mansour, Francesco Panerai, Jean Lachaud, Thierry Magin","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-030322-010557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-030322-010557","url":null,"abstract":"Ablative thermal protection systems have experienced renewed interest in the past decade owing to the retirement of NASA's Space Shuttle fleet and the US presidential mandate to develop technologies that enable humans to explore space beyond low Earth orbit. Blunt body architecture for spacecraft and the use of ablators for thermal protection systems returned as the primary choice in mission planning. This review addresses current progress in modernizing predictive tools for ablative material response. Current theory development leverages progress made in the theory of flows in porous media. This development, combined with progress in experimental techniques and high-end computing, is enabling the development of 3D macroscale models with realistic closure coefficients derived from direct numerical simulations of 3D microscale geometries of actual materials. While flight data quantifying ablative material response remain sparse, the next decade will be one of exploration in which heatshield instrumented spacecraft will provide crucial flight data for refining and validating closure models.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139504836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alberto Guardone, Piero Colonna, Matteo Pini, Andrea Spinelli
{"title":"Nonideal Compressible Fluid Dynamics of Dense Vapors and Supercritical Fluids","authors":"Alberto Guardone, Piero Colonna, Matteo Pini, Andrea Spinelli","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-120720-033342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-120720-033342","url":null,"abstract":"The gas dynamics of single-phase nonreacting fluids whose thermodynamic states are close to vapor-liquid saturation, close to the vapor-liquid critical point, or in supercritical conditions differs quantitatively and qualitatively from the textbook gas dynamics of dilute, ideal gases. Due to nonideal fluid thermodynamic properties, unconventional gas dynamic effects are possible, including nonclassical rarefaction shock waves and the nonmonotonic variation of the Mach number along steady isentropic expansions. This review provides a comprehensive theoretical framework of the fundamentals of nonideal compressible fluid dynamics (NICFD). The relation between nonideal gas dynamics and the complexity of the fluid molecules is clarified. The theoretical, numerical, and experimental tools currently employed to investigate NICFD flows and related applications are reviewed, followed by an overview of industrial processes involving NICFD, ranging from organic Rankine and supercritical CO<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> cycle power systems to supercritical processes. The future challenges facing researchers in the field are briefly outlined.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139504958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular Mechanics of Liquid and Gas Slip Flow","authors":"Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-014808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-014808","url":null,"abstract":"By taking into account the inhomogeneity introduced by the presence of a solid boundary, slip-flow theory extends the range of applicability of the venerable Navier–Stokes description to smaller scales and into the regime where confinement starts to be important. Due to the inherently atomistic nature of solid–fluid interactions at their interface, slip flow can be described, at least in principle, predictively at this level. This review aims to summarize our current understanding of slip flow at the atomistic level in dilute gases and dense liquids. The discussion extends over the similarities and differences between slip in gases and liquids, characterization and measurement of slip by molecular simulation methods, models for predicting slip, and open questions requiring further investigation.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139504802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ken Kamrin, Kimberly M. Hill, Daniel I. Goldman, Jose E. Andrade
{"title":"Advances in Modeling Dense Granular Media","authors":"Ken Kamrin, Kimberly M. Hill, Daniel I. Goldman, Jose E. Andrade","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-022045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-022045","url":null,"abstract":"This review focuses on how the modeling of dense granular media has advanced over the last 15 years. The jumping-off point of our review is the μ( I) rheology for dry granular flow, which opened the door to generic flow field modeling but was primarily geared toward problems involving small monodisperse grains of simple shapes. Our review focuses on advances in modeling more material types and behaviors including new approaches for modeling finite-grain-size effects or nonlocality, polydispersity and unmixing, and nontrivial grain shapes. We also discuss growing application areas with tractable order-reduction strategies with a focus on intrusion and locomotion problems.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139504838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deformation and Breakup of Bubbles and Drops in Turbulence","authors":"Rui Ni","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-034541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-034541","url":null,"abstract":"Fragmentation of bubbles and droplets in turbulence produces a dispersed phase spanning a broad range of scales, encompassing everything from droplets in nanoemulsions to centimeter-sized bubbles entrained in breaking waves. Along with deformation, fragmentation plays a crucial role in enhancing interfacial area, with far-reaching implications across various industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, and ocean engineering. However, understanding and modeling these processes are challenging due to the complexity of anisotropic and inhomogeneous turbulence typically involved, the unknown residence time in regions with different turbulence intensities, and difficulties arising from the density and viscosity ratios. Despite these challenges, recent advances have provided new insights into the underlying physics of deformation and fragmentation in turbulence. This review summarizes existing works in various fields, highlighting key results and uncertainties, and examining the impact on turbulence modulation, drag reduction, and heat and mass transfer.Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 56 is January 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138449706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boris Kramer, Benjamin Peherstorfer, Karen E. Willcox
{"title":"Learning Nonlinear Reduced Models from Data with Operator Inference","authors":"Boris Kramer, Benjamin Peherstorfer, Karen E. Willcox","doi":"10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-025220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-025220","url":null,"abstract":"This review discusses Operator Inference, a nonintrusive reduced modeling approach that incorporates physical governing equations by defining a structured polynomial form for the reduced model, and then learns the corresponding reduced operators from simulated training data. The polynomial model form of Operator Inference is sufficiently expressive to cover a wide range of nonlinear dynamics found in fluid mechanics and other fields of science and engineering, while still providing efficient reduced model computations. The learning steps of Operator Inference are rooted in classical projection-based model reduction; thus, some of the rich theory of model reduction can be applied to models learned with Operator Inference. This connection to projection-based model reduction theory offers a pathway toward deriving error estimates and gaining insights to improve predictions. Furthermore, through formulations of Operator Inference that preserve Hamiltonian and other structures, important physical properties such as energy conservation can be guaranteed in the predictions of the reduced model beyond the training horizon. This review illustrates key computational steps of Operator Inference through a large-scale combustion example.Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 56 is January 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.","PeriodicalId":50754,"journal":{"name":"Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics","volume":"6 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71418005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}