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Geert Brethouwer

PhD
Phone: +46 8 790 7149
Fax: +46 8 796 98 50
E-mail: geert@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

PhD 2001 Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Professional history

At KTH since 2001.

Research and Professional Activities

Keywords: turbulence, turbulent mixing and dispersion, stratified flows, turbulent combustion, direct numerical simulations and large-eddy simulations

Publications

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Year Title
2013 An explicit algebraic model for the subgrid-scale passive scalar flux
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 721 541-577
2013 An explicit algebraic Reynolds-stress and scalar-flux model for stably stratified flows
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 723 91-125
2012 Rare backflow and extreme wall-normal velocity fluctuations in near-wall turbulence
Phys. Fluids 24 035110
2012 Modelling of turbulent gas-particle flows with focus on two-way coupling effects on turbophoresis
Powder Technology 224 36-45
2012 Explicit Algebraic subgrid-scale models for LES
Proc. of 9th Int. ERCOFTAC Symp. on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements (ETMM9)   
2012 Explicit algebraic subgrid stress models for LES
9th Eur. Fluid Mech. Conf. EFMC9, 9-13 September, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"  
2012 Explicit algebraic models for stratified flows
Proc 9th Int. ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements (ETMM9), Thessaloniki, Greece, Jun. 6-8 (2012)  
2011 Effects of modelling, resolution and anisotropy of subgrid-scales on large eddy simulations of channel flow
J. Turbulence 12 (10) 1-20
2011 A Modelling Study of Evolving Particle-laden Turbulent Pipe-flow
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 86 477-495
2011 Deriving fluid-particle correlation closures for Eulerian two-fluid models through use of Langevin equations
European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids 30 275-280
2011 Stochastic and non-stochastic explicit algebraic models for LES
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 7  1-6
2011 Negative streamwise velocities and other rare events near the wall in turbulent flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022013
2011 Turbulent boundary layers in long computational domains
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20–22, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland 56 
2011 Progress in simulations of turbulent boundary layers
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, 28-31 July 2011, Ottawa, Canada  1-10
2011 Direct numerical simulation of an isothermal reacting turbulent wall-jet
Phys. Fluids 23 085104
2011 Effects of rapid spanwise rotation on turbulent channel flow with a passive scalar
Seventh International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomema, July 28 - 31, 2011, Ottawa, Canada  
2011 Turbulence, instabilities and passive scalars in rotating channel flow
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 032025
2011 Cyclic bursts in rotating wall turbulence
64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20–22, 2011, Baltimore, USA  
2011 Instabilities and Flow Structures in a Rotating Channel
APS Online Image Gallery  
2011 Direct numerical simulations of stratified open-channel flows
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 318 022009
2010 Simulations of spatially evolving turbulent boundary layers up to Re_\theta = 4300
Int. J. Heat and Fluid Flow 31 251-261
2010 Developing particle-laden turbulent pipe-flow
7th Int. Conf. on Multiphase Flow, May 30 - June 4, 2010, Tampa, Florida, USA  
2010 Numerical study of turbulent-laminar patterns in MHD, rotating and stratified shear flows
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VIII  
2010 Particle Diffusion in Stably Stratified Flows
Proc. iTi Conference on Turbulence IV, Bertinoro, Italy, 2010  
2010 An explicit algebraic subgrid-scale scalar flux model for large eddy simulation
Proc. of 8th Int. ERCOFTAC Symp. on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements (ETMM8) 3 884-889
2010 Subgrid-scale model and resolution influences in large eddy simulations of channel flow
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VIII  
2010 Direct numerical simulation of a turbulent reacting wall-jet
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VIII 15 345-350
2010 Probability density functions of reacting species concentrations in turbulent wall-jet
Progress in Turbulence IV, Proc. iTi Conference in Turbulence 2010  75-78
2009 Numerical study of vertical dispersion by stratified turbulence
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 631 149-163
2009 A study of particle feedback in turbulent gas-particle flows
7th World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics  1633-1640
2009 A modelling study of evolving particle-laden turbulent pipe-flow
Turbulence, Heat and Mass Transfer 6  713-716
2009 Towards large-eddy simulations of high-Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 6  271-276
2009 Direct numerical simulation of non-isothermal turbulent wall-jets
Physics of Fluids 21 035101
2009 Explicit algebraic subgrid stress models with application to rotating channel flow
J. Fluid Mech. 639 403-432
2009 Direct numerical simulationis of non-isothermal and reacting wall-jets
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 6  947-952
2009 Investigation of fluid particle dispersion in stably stratified turbulence
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 6  1160-1165
2009 Numerical simulations of particle dispersion in stratified flows
Advances in Turbulence XII, Proc. 12th EUROMECH ETC, Sept. 7-10, 2009, Marburg, Germany 12 51-54
2008 Passive scalars in stratified turbulence
Geophys. Res. Lett. 35 L06809
2008 Vertical dispersion by stratified turbulence
J. Fluid Mech.  
2008 Model simulations of two-way coupling effects on eveolving particle-laden turbulent channel flow
Proceedings of the 7th Int. Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements  480-485
2008 Explicit algebraic subgrid models for large-eddy simulation
Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VII  
2008 Numerical computation of turbulent gas-particle flow in a backward-facing step. Model comparison with experimental data.
Proceedings of the 11th Int. Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plants  63-70
2007 Direct numerical simulation of a plane turbulent wall-jet including scalar mixing
Physics of fluids A 19 065102
2007 A stochastic subgrid model with application to turbulent flow and scalar mixing
Phys. Fluids 19 035107
2007 Near wall treatment in LES wth an explicit algebraic subgrid stress model
ERCOFTAC bulletin 72 45-48
2007 A stochastic SGS model with application to turbulent channel flow with a passive scalar
Advances in Turbulence XI, Proceedings of the eleventh European Turbulence Conference  591-593
2007 Direct numerical simulation non-isothermal wall-jets
5th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena  
2007 An explicit algebraic subgrid stress model for LES of rotating flows
Proc. 18ème Congrés Francais de Mecanique,  
2007 Direct numerical simulation of a reacting turbulent wall-jet
  
2007 A numerical method for simulation of turbulence and mixing in a compressible wall-jet, version 2.
  
2007 Stratified turbulence forced in rotational and divergent modes
J. Fluid Mech. 586 83-108
2007 Scaling analysis and numerical simulations of strongly stratified turbulent flows
J. Fluid Mech. 585 343-368
2005 Direct numerical simulation of mixing in a plane compressible and turbulent wall jet
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 4 3 1131-1136
2005 The effect of rotation on rapidly sheared homogeneous turbulence and passive scalar transport. Linear theory and direct numerical simulations.
J. Fluid Mech. 542 305--342
2005 Direct numerical simulation of rotating duct flow
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 4  
2004 Simulation of mixing in a plane compressible and turbulent wall jet
Advances in Turbulence X, Proceedings of the tenth European turbulence conference  
2004 Rotating homogeneous shear flow with passive scalars
Advances in Turbulence X, Proceedings of the tenth European turbulence conference  743-746
2004 Lie group analysis, LES and modeling of shear-free turbulent diffusion in a rotating frame
Advances in Turbulence X, Proceedings of the tenth European turbulence conference  
2003 Micro-structure and Lagrangian statistics of the scalar field with a mean gradient in isotropic turbulence
J. Fluid Mech. 474 193-225
2003 The effect of rotation on a rapidly sheared homogeneous turbulent flow with a passive scalar
Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena - 3  
2002 Structure and dynamics of the scalar field with a mean gradient in isotropic turbulence
Advances in Turbulence IX, Proc. IX European Turbulence Conference, Southampton 2002  117-120
2002 Micro structure and Lagrangian statistics of the scalar field with a mean scalar gradient in isotropic turbulence
Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, IUTAM symp. on Turbulent Mixing and Combustion, Kingston 70 

Projects

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Period Title Area
2011- Improved representation of the arctic boundary layer in climate models Fluid mechanics
2009- Numerical study of fully deveoped high Reynolds number turbulent pipe flow Fluid mechanics
2009- Direct numerical simulation of a reacting turbulent wall-jet Fluid mechanics
2009- Explicit algebraic sub-grid scale modelling for large-eddy simulations Fluid mechanics
2001-2006 Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow and combustion Fluid mechanics
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