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Initially Turbulent Wakes


Simulations of initially turbulent, three dimensional wakes

in stratified fluids, without and with shear

lab research software

Initially turbulent three-dimensional wakes in stratified fluids

by Dr. Michael J. Gourlay

Characteristics of Wakes in the Ocean

These files and directories describe some of my simulations and research about initially turbulent three-dimensional wakes in stratified fluids. The Office of Naval Research sponsored this research under the Engineering, Materials, and Physical S&T Department, Mechanics and Energy Conversion Science and Technology Division, Turbulence program and Propulsors and Flow Structure Interactions program. The DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program partially supported this work with grants of computer at the Aeronautical Systems Center. and Engineering Research and Development Center.

Presentation Overview of this project in the form of a slide show, with movies.
Papers Manuscripts, preprints and papers.
Links Links to online publications:
  • DoD HPC UGC 2000, our talk schedule entry;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2000, our paper;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2000, all papers;

  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, our talk schedule entry;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, our talk slides;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, our paper (2001sep27: not yet);
  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, ERDC SciVis paper: Ogle, Wakes;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, ERDC SciVis slides: Ogle, Wakes;
  • DoD HPC UGC 2001, all papers;
  • Simulation Data Some reduced data for some of our three dimensional simulations:
  • Wakes without shear.
  • More wakes without shear
  • More non-zero-momentum wakes without shear
  • Wakes with shear
  • More wakes with shear
  • Laboratory Data Laboratory data from Dr. Alan Brandt (alan.brandt@jhuapl.edu) at Johns Hopkins University.
    Comparisons Movies showing laboratory and simulation data side by side.
    Movies Other data movies.
    Figures Various figures.


    Dr. Michael J. Gourlay (www.co-ra.com/~gourlay/research/) / gourlay at colorado-research dot com