Xiaohua Wu

Recent Publications

"Boundary layer transition induced by periodic wakes," X. Wu and P.A. Durbin, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, to appear in July, 2000.

"Numerical simulation of heat transfer in a transitional boundary layer induced by passing wakes," X. Wu and P.A. Durbin, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 122, 248-257, 2000.

"Evidence of longitudinal vortices evolved from distorted wakes in a turbine passage," X. Wu and P.A. Durbin, submitted for publication, March, 2000.

"Simulation of boundary layer transition induced by periodically passing wakes," X. Wu, R. Jacobs, J. Hunt and P.A. Durbin, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 398, 109-153, 1999.

"Prediction and investigation of the turbulent flow over a rotating disk," X. Wu and K.D. Squires, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 418, 231-264, 2000.

"Numerical investigation of the turbulent boundary layer over a bump," X. Wu and K.D. Squires, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 362, 229-271, 1998.
 

Current Research

In accordance with the goal to "advance the physics-based numerical simulation of the complete flow and combustion and related phenomena in aircraft gas turbine engines", Professor Paul A. Durbin and I performed DNS and RANS on the unsteady flow phenomena induced by adjacent blade rows".
 

Major Discovery -- my contribution to Fluid Mechanics

A unique kind of longitudinal vortices evolved from strained migrating wakes in turbine stator passage", a closeup view near the pressure surface", cross-sectional view near the pressure surface", mushroom structures over the pressure surface".

Last updated October 1999