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A recent paper [J. A. Evans, D. Kamensky, Y. Bazilevs, "Variational multiscale modeling with discretely divergence-free subscales", Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 80 (2020) 2517-2537] introduced a novel stabilized finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Sajje Lee Calfy , John A. Evans , David Kamensky

Despite the increasing availability of high-performance computational resources, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations remain the workhorse for the analysis of turbulent flows in real-world applications. Linear eddy viscosity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-27 Leon Riccius , Atul Agrawal , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

The paper introduces a geometrically unfitted finite element method for the numerical solution of the tangential Navier--Stokes equations posed on a passively evolving smooth closed surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken , Paul Schwering

The laminar-to-turbulent transition remains a fundamental and enduring challenge in fluid mechanics. Its complexity arises from the intrinsic nonlinearity and extreme sensitivity to external disturbances. This transition is critical in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-07 Wenhui Chang , Hongyuan Hu , Youcheng Xi , Markus Kloker , Honghui Teng , Jie Ren

We propose the use of an unifying paradigm for the assessment and development of closed forms of the coarse-grained Navier-Stokes equations in approaches ranging from the statistical to the scale-resolving ones. It consists in the exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-23 A. Cimarelli , N. Marras , B. Niceno , Y. Tessier Urrecha

FEniCS Mechanics is a Python package to facilitate computational mechanics simulations. The Python library dolfin, from the FEniCS Project, is used to formulate and numerically solve the problem in variational form. The general balance laws…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Miguel A. Rodriguez , Christoph M. Augustin , Shawn C. Shadden

We consider a statistical limit of solutions to the compressible Navier--Stokes system in the high Reynolds number regime in a domain exterior to a rigid body. We investigate to what extent this highly turbulent regime can be modeled by an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Eduard Feireisl , Martina Hofmanova

In this paper, we propose an approach for simulating wall-bounded incompressible turbulent flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core principles of large-eddy simulations (LES). In particular, we employ the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

As a key step towards a complete automation of the finite element method, we present a new algorithm for automatic and efficient evaluation of multilinear variational forms. The algorithm has been implemented in the form of a compiler, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Robert C. Kirby , Anders Logg

Despite well-known limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, this methodology remains the most widely used tool for predicting many turbulent flows, due to computational efficiency. Machine learning is a promising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryley McConkey , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

In this paper we consider the Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ (NS-$\alpha$) model within a large-eddy simulation framework. An investigation is carried out using fully-developed turbulent channel flow at a fairly low Reynolds number. This is a flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 K. Andrea Scott , F. S. Lien

It is well known that the Boussinesq turbulent viscosity hypothesis can yield inaccurate predictions when complex f low features are involved, e.g. laminar-turbulent transition. The focus of the study is to explore the capability of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-01 Minghan Chu , Xiaohua Wu , David E. Rival

The primary emphasis of this work is the development of a finite element based space-time discretization for solving the stochastic Lagrangian averaged Navier-Stokes (LANS-$\alpha$) equations of incompressible fluid turbulence with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jad Doghman , Ludovic Goudenège

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation by the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations is an essential tool in a wide range of applications from engineering design to climate modeling. However, the computational cost and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Mateus Dias Ribeiro , Abdul Rehman , Sheraz Ahmed , Andreas Dengel

Differentiable physical simulators are proving to be valuable tools for developing data-driven models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In particular, these simulators enable end-to-end training of machine learning (ML) models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hojin Kim , Varun Shankar , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan , Romit Maulik

This paper introduces the FEDM (Finite Element Discharge Modelling) code, which was developed using the open-source computing platform FEniCS (https://fenicsproject.org). Building on FEniCS, the FEDM code utilises the finite element method…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Aleksandar P. Jovanović , Detlef Loffhagen , Markus M. Becker

It is a classical problem in fluid dynamics about the stability and instability of different hydrodynamic patterns in various physical settings, in particular in the high Reynolds number limit of laminar flow with boundary layer. However,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Tong Yang , Zhu Zhang

A novel machine learning algorithm is presented, serving as a data-driven turbulence modeling tool for Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. This machine learning algorithm, called the Tensor Basis Random Forest (TBRF), is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-20 Mikael L. A. Kaandorp , Richard P. Dwight

This work presents a review and perspectives on recent developments in the use of machine learning (ML) to augment Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models of turbulent flows. Different approaches of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-19 Karthik Duraisamy

The limitations of turbulence closure models in the context of Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes (RANS) simulations play a significant part in contributing to the uncertainty of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Perturbing the spectral…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marcel Matha , Christian Morsbach