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This paper studies a model of two-phase flow with an immersed material viscous interface and a finite element method for numerical solution of the resulting system of PDEs. The interaction between the bulk and surface media is characterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Maxim Olshanskii , Annalisa Quaini , Qi Sun

The spatial characteristics and structure of an axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer under strong adverse pressure gradient and weak transverse curvature are investigated using incompressible large-eddy simulation. The boundary layer is on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-03 Di Zhou , Kan Wang , Meng Wang

Recent advances in velocity and temperature transformations have enabled recovery of the law of the wall in compressible wall-bounded turbulent flows. Building on this foundation, a flux-controlled wall model (FCWM) for Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-29 Youjie Xu , Steffen J. Schmidt , Nikolaus A. Adams

We analyze thermodynamic models for fluid systems in equilibrium based on a virial expansion of the internal energy in terms of the volume density. We prove that the models, formulated for finite-size systems with $N$ particles, are exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Xin An , Francesco Giglio , Giulio Landolfi

We present an analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations based on a spatial filtering technique to elucidate the multi-scale nature of fully developed turbulence. In particular, the advection of a band-pass-filtered small-scale contribution by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-24 Theodore D. Drivas , Perry L. Johnson , Cristian C. Lalescu , Michael Wilczek

A previously developed modeling procedure for large eddy simulations (LESs) is extended to allow physical space implementations for inhomogeneous flows. The method is inspired by the well-established theoretical analyses and numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-28 Guangrui Sun , J. Andrzej Domaradzki

Serrations are commonly employed to mitigate the turbulent boundary layer trailing-edge noise. However, significant discrepancies persist between model predictions and experimental observations. In this paper, we show that this results from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Haopeng Tian , Benshuai Lyu

A novel approach to wall modeling for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations including flows of moderate and large Reynolds numbers is presented. The basic idea is that a problem-tailored function space allows prediction of turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-18 Benjamin Krank , Wolfgang A. Wall

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

In this paper, the finite volume lattice Boltzmann method (FVLBM) on unstructured grid presented in Part I of this paper is extended to simulate the turbulent flows. To model the turbulent effect, the $k-\omega$ SST turbulence model is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Yong Wang , Chengwen Zhong , Jun Cao , Congshan Zhuo

We present a space-time continuous-Galerkin finite element method for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. To ensure stability of the discrete variational problem, we apply ideas from the variational multi-scale method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Biswajit Khara , Robert Dyja , Kumar Saurabh , Anupam Sharma , Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Rayleigh--Taylor fluid turbulence through a bed of rigid, finite-size, spheres is investigated by means of high-resolution Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), fully coupling the fluid and the solid phase via a state-of-the art Immersed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-05 G. Sardina , L. Brandt , G. Boffetta , A. Mazzino

We show the existence of weak solutions to the fluid-structure interaction problem of a largely deforming viscoelastic bulk solid with a viscous fluid governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In contrast to previous works,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Antonín Češík , Malte Kampschulte , Sebastian Schwarzacher

Turbulent flows exhibit large intermittent fluctuations from inertial to dissipative scales, characterized by multifractal statistics and breaking the statistical self-similarity. It has recently been proposed that the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-08 B. Magacho , S. Thalabard , M. Buzzicotti , F. Bonaccorso , L Biferale , A. A. Mailybaev

We present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase flow. This free boundary problem is given by the Navier--Stokes equations in the two phases, which are coupled via jump conditions across the interface. Using a novel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-02 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

Turbulent flow over a rounded broad-crested weir is investigated by means of detached eddy simulation (DES) and large eddy simulation (LES) with special emphasis on the interaction of coherent vortex structures with free-surface. In order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. Anil Kizilaslan , Elif Deniz Atlas , Huseyin Yaban , Ender Demirel

Aerodynamic prediction of glaze ice accretion on airfoils and wing is studied using the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes method. Two separation fixed turbulence models are developed considering the nonequilibrium characteristics of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-27 Haoran Li , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen

This article analyses the simulation methodology for wall-modeled large-eddy simulations using solvers based on the spectral-element method (SEM). To that end, algebraic wall modeling is implemented in the popular SEM solver Nek5000. It is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-09 Timofey Mukha , Philipp Schlatter

Cavitation is a complex multiphase phenomenon characterised by vapour bubbles forming due to a sudden pressure drop and is often accompanied by increased hull vibrations, increased radiated noise and decrease in propeller and impeller…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-02 Dhruv Apte , Mingming Ge , Olivier Coutier-Delgosha

Large-eddy simulations of the turbulent flow in a lid-driven cubical cavity have been carried out at a Reynolds number of 12000 using spectral element methods. Two distinct subgrid-scales models, namely a dynamic Smagorinsky model and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-09-04 Roland Bouffanais , Michel O. Deville , Emmanuel Leriche