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Newtonian flow at Ra=1e10, Pr=4.3.
Viscoelastic flow at Ra=1e10, Pr=4.3, Wi=30.
Viscoelastic flow at Ra=1e10, Pr=4.3, Wi=120.
Song, J. *, Xu C., Shishkina, O.*, 2025 A finite difference method for turbulent thermal convection of complex fluids. J. Comput. Phys. 525, 113732.
Xu C.*, Zhang C., Brandt L., Song, J.*, Shishkina, O.*, 2025 Direct numerical simulations of turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection with polymer additives. J. Fluid Mech. 1014, A22. (JFM cover paper)
Taylor columns at Ra=2.5e12, Ek=5e-9.
Geostrophic turbulence at Ra=1e13, Ek=5e-9.
Large-scale vortices at Ra=5e13, Ek=5e-9.
Song, J. *, Shishkina, O.*, Zhu, X.* 2024 Scaling regimes in rapidly rotating thermal convection at extreme Rayleigh numbers. J. Fluid Mech. 984, A45.
Song, J. , Shishkina, O., Zhu, X.* 2024 Direct numerical simulations of rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection with Rayleigh number up to 5e13. J. Fluid Mech. 989, A3. (JFM cover paper)
Song, J.*, Kannan, V., Shishkina, O., Zhu, X.* 2024 Direct numerical simulations of the transition between rotation- to buoyancy-dominated regimes in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 232, 125971.
Fu, Y., Bader, SH., Song, J., Zhu, X.* 2024 Turbulent spherical Rayleigh–Bénard convection: radius ratio dependence. J. Fluid Mech. 1000, A41
Kannan, V., Song, J., Shishkina, O., Zhu, X.* 2025 Beyond Nusselt number: Assessing Reynolds and length scalings in rotating convection under stress-free boundary conditions. J. Fluid Mech. 1016, A3.
Instantaneous vortical structures for different radius ratios.
Song, J., Teng, H., Liu, N.*, Ding, H., Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2019 The correspondence between drag enhancement and vortical structures in turbulent Taylor–Couette flows with polymer additives: a study of curvature dependence. J. Fluid Mech. 881: 602-616.
Song, J., Wan Z.-H., Liu, N.*, Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2021 A reverse transition route from inertial to elasticity-dominated turbulence in viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow. J. Fluid Mech. 927, A10.
Song, J., Lin, F., Liu, N.*, Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2021 Direct numerical simulation of inertio-elastic turbulent Taylor–Couette flow. J. Fluid Mech. 926, A37.
Lin, F., Song, J. Zhao, Z., Liu, N.*, Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2023 A novel transition route to elastically dominated turbulence in viscoelastic Taylor–Couette flow. J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 312, 104968. (Walters Prize paper)
Lin, F., Song, J., Liu, N.*, Wan Z.-H., Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2024 Maximum drag enhancement asymptote in turbulent Taylor–Couette flow of dilute polymeric solutions. J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 323, 105172.
Lin, F., Song, J., Liu, N.*, Liu L., Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B. 2024 Keplerian turbulence in Taylor--Couette flow of dilute polymeric solutions. J. Fluid Mech. 1000, R3. (Featured in Focus on Fluids)
Lin, F., Song, J., Liao Z.-M., Liu, N.*, Liu L., Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2025 Asymptotic drag reduction states in turbulent Taylor vortex flow of dilute polymeric solutions: interplay between large-scale structures and polymer chains dynamics. J. Fluid Mech. 1009, A24.
Newtonian Taylor-Couette turbulence at Re=10000.
Inertially-dominated turbulence at Re=8000, Wi=30
Purely elastic turbulence at Re=0.0001, Wi=30
Song, J., Liu, N.*, Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2022 Direct numerical simulation of elastic turbulence in the Taylor–Couette flow: transition pathway and mechanistic insight. J. Fluid Mech. 949, A49.
Song, J., Lin, F., Zhu, Y., Wan Z.-H., Liu, N.*, Lu X.-Y., Khomami, B.* 2023 Self-sustaining cycle of purely elastic turbulence. Phys. Rev. Fluids. 8, 014602.
Song, J. , Zhu, Y., Lin, F., Liu, N.*, Khomami, B.* 2023 Turbulent Taylor–Couette flow of dilute polymeric solutions: a 10-year retrospective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A. 381, 20220132. (Invited review paper)
Instantaneous vortical structures with increasing rotation number.
Zhu, Y., Song, J., Liu, N.*, Lu X., Khomami, B.* 2020 Polymer-induced flow relaminarization and drag enhancement in spanwise-rotating plane Couette flow. J. Fluid Mech. 905, A19.
Zhu, Y., Song, J., Lin, F., Liu, N.*, Lu X., Khomami, B.* 2022 Relaminarization of spanwise-rotating viscoelastic plane Couette flow via a transition sequence from a drag-reduced inertial to a drag-enhanced elasto-inertial turbulent flow. J. Fluid Mech. 931, R7.
Wang, M., Zhao, Z., Gao, A., Song, J., Liu N.* 2023 Rotation effects on turbulence features of viscoelastic spanwise-rotating plane Couette flows. Phys. Fluids. 35, 063105.