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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
48
Citations
7716
World Ranking
1314
National Ranking
527

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  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his deep, insightful contributions to theoreticalcomputational fluid dynamics including understanding of vortex sheet dynamics, the equilibrium particle simulation method, and physicsbased vortex models for turbulence and largeeddy simulation

Overview

D. I. Pullin is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their primary research area is in the field of Engineering, with 32 publications covering various aspects of this broad discipline. Within Engineering, their work is concentrated largely in Computational Mechanics, complemented by contributions in Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, reflected in 24 publications. Other notable topics include Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows, and Biomimetic Flight and Propulsion Mechanisms.

The most frequent venue for their publications is the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, with 16 papers published in this journal. Additional publications appear in Ocean Engineering and Physics of Plasmas.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by D. I. Pullin include:

  • Experimental study of a turbulent boundary layer with a rough-to-smooth change in surface conditions at high Reynolds numbers, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Modelling the downstream development of a turbulent boundary layer following a step change of roughness, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Large-eddy simulation and modelling of Taylor-Couette flow, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Defining an equivalent homogeneous roughness length for turbulent boundary layers developing over patchy or heterogeneous surfaces, 2023, Ocean Engineering
  • Wall-resolved and wall-modelled large-eddy simulation of plane Couette flow, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Frequent co-authors working with D. I. Pullin include:

  • Ravi Samtaney
  • Wan Cheng
  • John E. Sader
  • Nicholas Hutchins
  • Xisheng Luo

D. I. Pullin was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2006. The citation for this award highlights contributions to theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, specifically in vortex sheet dynamics, the equilibrium particle simulation method, and physics-based vortex models for turbulence and large-eddy simulation.

Best Publications

  • Direct numerical simulation of decaying compressible turbulence and shocklet statistics

    Ravi Samtaney;D. I. Pullin;Branko Kosović

  • Direct simulation methods for compressible inviscid ideal-gas flow

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  • Hybrid tuned center-difference-WENO method for large eddy simulations in the presence of strong shocks

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  • A vortex-based subgrid stress model for large-eddy simulation

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  • A comparison of vortex and pseudo-spectral methods for the simulation of periodic vortical flows at high Reynolds numbers

    Wim M. van Rees;Anthony Leonard;D. I. Pullin;Petros Koumoutsakos

  • Large-eddy simulation and multiscale modelling of a Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock

    D. J. Hill;C. Pantano;D. I. Pullin

  • The large-scale structure of unsteady self-similar rolled-up vortex sheets

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  • Large-eddy simulation and wall modelling of turbulent channel flow

    D. Chung;D. I. Pullin

  • Vortex dynamics in turbulence

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  • A vortex-based model for the subgrid flux of a passive scalar

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  • A low numerical dissipation patch-based adaptive mesh refinement method for large-eddy simulation of compressible flows

    C. Pantano;R. Deiterding;D. J. Hill;D. I. Pullin

  • Some flow visualization experiments on the starting vortex

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  • Subgrid-scale modeling for large-eddy simulations of compressible turbulence

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  • Unsteady forces on an accelerating plate and application to hovering insect flight

    D. I. Pullin;Z. Jane Wang

  • Vortex ring formation at tube and orifice openings

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  • Numerical studies of surface-tension effects in nonlinear Kelvin–Helmholtz and Rayleigh–Taylor instability

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  • An adaptive high-order hybrid scheme for compressive, viscous flows with detailed chemistry

    Jack L Ziegler;Ralf Deiterding;Joseph E Shepherd;Dale I Pullin

  • Contour Dynamics Methods

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  • Atwood ratio dependence of Richtmyer–Meshkov flows under reshock conditions using large-eddy simulations

    M. Lombardini;D. J. Hill;D. I. Pullin;D. I. Meiron

  • On the Lundgren–Townsend model of turbulent fine scales

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  • Turbulent mixing driven by spherical implosions. Part 1. Flow description and mixing-layer growth

    M. Lombardini;D. I. Pullin;D. I. Meiron

  • On initial-value and self-similar solutions of the compressible Euler equations

    Ravindra Samtaney;D. I. Pullin

  • Direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of stationary buoyancy-driven turbulence

    D. Chung;D. I. Pullin

  • Transition to turbulence in shock-driven mixing: a Mach number study

    M. Lombardini;D. I. Pullin;D. I. Meiron

  • Eulerian adaptive finite-difference method for high-velocity impact and penetration problems

    P. T. Barton;R. Deiterding;D. Meiron;D. Pullin

  • Large-eddy simulation of flow over a cylinder with from to : a skin-friction perspective

    Wan Cheng;D. I. Pullin;Ravi Samtaney;W. Zhang

  • Stability of an impulsively accelerated density interface in magnetohydrodynamics.

    V. Wheatley;D. I. Pullin;R. Samtaney

  • On imploding cylindrical and spherical shock waves in a perfect gas

    N. F. Ponchaut;H. G. Hornung;D. I. Pullin;C. A. Mouton

  • On the non-local geometry of turbulence

    Iván Bermejo-Moreno;D. I. Pullin

  • An Eulerian hybrid WENO centered-difference solver for elastic-plastic solids

    D. J. Hill;D. Pullin;M. Ortiz;D. Meiron

  • Large-eddy simulation of the zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer up to Re θ = O(1012)

    M. Inoue;D. I. Pullin

  • Turbulent mixing driven by spherical implosions. Part 2. Turbulence statistics

    M. Lombardini;D. I. Pullin;D. I. Meiron

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Deiterding
Ralf Deiterding University of Southampton
Ivan Marusic
Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne
Hugh Maurice Blackburn
Hugh Maurice Blackburn Monash University
Tim Colonius
Tim Colonius California Institute of Technology
Paul E. Dimotakis
Paul E. Dimotakis California Institute of Technology
Nicholas Hutchins
Nicholas Hutchins University of Melbourne
Joseph E. Shepherd
Joseph E. Shepherd California Institute of Technology
Ares J. Rosakis
Ares J. Rosakis California Institute of Technology
Hans G. Hornung
Hans G. Hornung California Institute of Technology
Anthony Leonard
Anthony Leonard California Institute of Technology

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