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Data-driven techniques have improved the accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models in fluid dynamics. However, modeling separated flows remains challenging due to their complex physics and sensitivity to local conditions.…

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Data-driven turbulence modeling is a newly emerged research area in thermal hydraulics simulation of nuclear power plant (NPP). The most common CFD method used in NPP thermal hydraulics simulation is Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)…

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This work proposes a new stabilized $P_1\times P_0$ finite element method for solving the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations. The numerical scheme is based on a reduced Bernardi--Raugel element with statically condensed face bubbles…

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This study proposes an algorithm for modeling compressible flows in spherical shells in nearly incompressible and weakly compressible regimes based on an implicit direction splitting approach. The method retains theoretically expected…

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Traditional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) closures, based on the Boussinesq eddy viscosity hypothesis and calibrated on canonical flows, often yield inaccurate predictions of both mean flow and turbulence statistics. Here, we…

We investigate relationships between statistics obtained from filtering and from ensemble or Reynolds-averaging turbulence flow fields as a function of length scale. Generalized central moments in the filtering approach are expressed as…

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A local artificial neural network (LANN) framework is developed for turbulence modeling. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) unclosed terms are reconstructed by artificial neural network (ANN) based on the local coordinate system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chenyue Xie , Xiangming Xiong , Jianchun Wang

Models for solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are popular tools for predicting complex turbulent flows due to their computational affordability and ability to provide or estimate quantities of engineering interest.…

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Traditional computational fluid dynamics and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often suffer from high computational cost, mesh sensitivity, and reduced accuracy for strongly nonlinear and time-dependent flows. To address these…

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The applicability of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based design tools depend on the accuracy and complexity of the physical models, for example turbulence models, which remains an unsolved problem in physics, and rotor models that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-09 Shanti Bhushan , Greg W Burgreen , Joshua L Bowman , Ian D Dettwiller , Wesley Brewer

We introduce a residual-based stabilized formulation for incompressible Navier-Stokes flow that maintains discrete (and, for divergence-conforming methods, strong) mass conservation for inf-sup stable spaces with $H^1$-conforming pressure…

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This article focusses on the analysis of a conforming finite element method for the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. For divergence-free approximations, in a semi-discrete formulation, we prove error estimates for the…

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The oscillatory flow around a spherical object lying on a rough bottom is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations of continuity and Navier-Stokes equations. The rough bottom is simulated by a layer/multiple layers of spherical…

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We use parsimonious diffusion maps (PDMs) to discover the latent dynamics of high-fidelity Navier-Stokes simulations with a focus on the 2D fluidic pinball problem. By varying the Reynolds number, different flow regimes emerge, ranging from…

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The paper considers a system of equations that models a lateral flow of a Boussinesq--Scriven fluid on a passively evolving surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. For the resulting Navier-Stokes type system, posed on a smooth closed…

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We consider a Leray model with a nonlinear differential low-pass filter for the simulation of incompressible fluid flow at moderately large Reynolds number (in the range of a few thousands) with under-refined meshes. For the implementation…

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This paper introduces a Variational Multiscale Stabilization (VMS) formulation of the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations that utilizes the Finite Element Exterior Calculus (FEEC) framework. The FEEC framework preserves the geometric…

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