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D-Index
34
Citations
5481
World Ranking
2809
National Ranking
973

Overview

Johan Larsson is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant concentration in computational mechanics. Other subfields of study include aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, ocean engineering, and mechanical engineering.

The scientific contributions of Johan Larsson encompass multiple topics related to fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Key areas of their work include computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, wind and air flow studies, combustion and flame dynamics, particle dynamics in fluid flows, and heat transfer mechanisms.

Johan Larsson has published extensively in several journals, with a frequent presence in the following publication venues:

  • AIAA Journal
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computers & Fluids

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on turbulent flow behavior, compressibility effects, and shock-boundary-layer interactions. Selected recent works include:

  • Data-driven compressibility transformation for turbulent wall layers, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Effects of a nonadiabatic wall on hypersonic shock/boundary-layer interactions, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Numerical tripping of high-speed turbulent boundary layers, 2022, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Incorporating intrinsic compressibility effects in velocity transformations for wall-bounded turbulent flows, 2023, Physical Review Fluids
  • On low-frequency unsteadiness in swept shock wave-boundary layer interactions, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Johan Larsson frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Sergio Pirozzoli
  • Pedro Stefanin Volpiani
  • Siavash Toosi
  • Nikhil Oberoi
  • Matteo Bernardini

Best Publications

  • Wall-modeling in large eddy simulation: Length scales, grid resolution, and accuracy

    Soshi Kawai;Johan Larsson

  • Large eddy simulation with modeled wall-stress: recent progress and future directions

    Johan Larsson;Soshi Kawai;Julien Bodart;Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

  • Assessment of high-resolution methods for numerical simulations of compressible turbulence with shock waves

    Eric Johnsen;Johan Larsson;Ankit V. Bhagatwala;William H. Cabot

  • Mean velocity scaling for compressible wall turbulence with heat transfer

    Andrew Trettel;Johan Larsson

  • Direct numerical simulation of canonical shock/turbulence interaction

    Johan Larsson;Sanjiva K. Lele

  • Dynamic non-equilibrium wall-modeling for large eddy simulation at high Reynolds numbers

    Soshi Kawai;Johan Larsson

  • Modeling of structural uncertainties in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes closures

    Michael Emory;Johan Larsson;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Reynolds- and Mach-number effects in canonical shock–turbulence interaction

    Johan Larsson;Ivan Bermejo-Moreno;Sanjiva K. Lele

  • Exploiting Active Subspaces to Quantify Uncertainty in the Numerical Simulation of the HyShot II Scramjet

    Paul G. Constantine;Michael Emory;Johan Larsson;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Confinement effects in shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions through wall-modelled large-eddy simulations

    Iván Bermejo-Moreno;Laura Campo;Johan Larsson;Julien Bodart

  • Subgrid-scale modeling for implicit large eddy simulation of compressible flows and shock-turbulence interaction

    Stefan Hickel;Christian P. Egerer;Johan Larsson

  • Suitability of artificial bulk viscosity for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows with shocks

    Ali Mani;Johan Larsson;Parviz Moin

  • Incipient thermal choking and stable shock-train formation in the heat-release region of a scramjet combustor. Part II: Large eddy simulations

    Johan Larsson;Stuart Jon Laurence;Ivan Bermejo-Moreno;Julien Bodart

  • Improving Low-Frequency Characteristics of Recycling/Rescaling Inflow Turbulence Generation

    Brandon Morgan;Johan Larsson;Soshi Kawai;Sanjiva K. Lele

  • Stability and modal analysis of shock/boundary layer interactions

    Joseph W. Nichols;Johan Larsson;Matteo Bernardini;Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Incipient thermal choking and stable shock-train formation in the heat-release region of a scramjet combustor. Part I: Shock-tunnel experiments

    S.J. Laurence;D. Lieber;J. Martinez Schramm;K. Hannemann

  • Aeroacoustic Investigation of an Open Cavity at Low Mach Number

    Johan Larsson;Lars Davidson;Magnus Olsson;Lars-Erik Eriksson

  • Nonlinear effects in the combined Rayleigh-Taylor/Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

    Britton J. Olson;Johan Larsson;Sanjiva K. Lele;Andrew W. Cook

  • Data-driven compressibility transformation for turbulent wall layers

    Pedro S. Volpiani;Prahladh S. Iyer;Sergio Pirozzoli;Johan Larsson

  • Effects of a nonadiabatic wall on hypersonic shock/boundary-layer interactions

    Pedro S. Volpiani;Matteo Bernardini;Johan Larsson

  • Heat transfer and wall temperature effects in shock wave turbulent boundary layer interactions

    M. Bernardini;I. Asproulias;J. Larsson;S. Pirozzoli

  • Incipient thermal choking and stable shock-train formation in the heat-releas e region of a scramjet combustor. Part I: Shock-tunnel experiments

    S. J. Laurence;D. Lieber;J. Martinez Schramm;K. Hannemann

  • A modified artificial viscosity approach for compressible turbulence simulations

    Ankit Bhagatwala;Johan Larsson;Sanjiva Lele

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjiva K. Lele
Sanjiva K. Lele Stanford University
Matteo Bernardini
Matteo Bernardini Sapienza University of Rome
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin Stanford University
Sergio Pirozzoli
Sergio Pirozzoli Sapienza University of Rome
Gianluca Iaccarino
Gianluca Iaccarino Stanford University
Fue-Sang Lien
Fue-Sang Lien University of Waterloo
John K. Eaton
John K. Eaton Stanford University
Claus-Dieter Munz
Claus-Dieter Munz University of Stuttgart
Lars Davidson
Lars Davidson Chalmers University of Technology
Xiaolin Zhong
Xiaolin Zhong University of California, Los Angeles

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