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A new model for the "rapid" part of the velocity/pressure-gradient correlation in the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations is suggested. It is shown that in an inhomogeneous incompressible turbulent flow, the model that is linear in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Svetlana V. Poroseva

Invariant parameterization schemes for the eddy-vorticity flux in the barotropic vorticity equation on the beta-plane are constructed and then applied to turbulence modeling. This construction is realized by the exhaustive description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 Alexander Bihlo , Elsa Dos Santos Cardoso-Bihlo , Roman O. Popovych

We present a simulation scheme for discrete-velocity gases based on {\em local thermodynamic equilibrium}. Exploiting the kinetic nature of discrete-velocity gases, in that context, results in a natural splitting of fluxes, and the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Balu Nadiga , Dale Pullin

The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) provides high computational efficiency and accuracy for continuum flow simulations but is unable to reliably capture rarefaction effects. In contrast, although the discrete velocity method (DVM) is better suited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hangkong Wu , Yuze Zhu , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

Numerical simulations of turbulent flows are well known to pose extreme computational challenges due to the huge number of dynamical degrees of freedom required to correctly describe the complex multi-scale statistical correlations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-27 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi

Solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) closed with an eddy viscosity computed through a turbulence model is still the leading approach for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. Unfortunately, universal models with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-18 Marco Castelletti , Maurizio Quadrio

We study the construction of subgrid-scale models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent flows. In particular, we aim to consolidate a systematic approach of constructing subgrid-scale models, based on the idea that it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-30 Maurits H. Silvis , Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Roel Verstappen

The transitional regime of plane channel flow is investigated {above} the transitional point below which turbulence is not sustained, using direct numerical simulation in large domains. Statistics of laminar-turbulent spatio-temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-16 Pavan V. Kashyap , Yohann Duguet , Olivier Dauchot

This work presents a numerical study of a diffusion flame in a reacting, two-dimensional, turbulent, viscous, multi-component, compressible mixing layer subject to a large favorable streamwise pressure gradient. The boundary-layer equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Sylvain L. Walsh , Lei Zhan , Carsten Mehring , Feng Liu , William A. Sirignano

The gas-kinetic scheme(GKS) is a promising computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations. It is based on the analytical solution of the BGK equation, which enables accurate and robust simulations. While…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

The majority of practical flows, particularly those flows in applications of importance to transport, distribution and climate, are turbulent and as a result experience complex three-dimensional motion with increased drag compared with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 B. J. McKeon , A. S. Sharma , I. Jacobi

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

Turbulence in fluids is an ubiquitous phenomenon, characterized by spontaneous transition of a smooth, laminar flow to rapidly changing, chaotic dynamics. In 1883, Reynolds experimentally demonstrated that, in an initially laminar flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-03 Rafail V. Abramov

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-25 Chen Wu , Baochang Shi , Zhenhua Chai , Peng Wang

We study the mechanism of energy injection from the mean flow to the fluctuating velocity necessary to maintain wall turbulence. This process is believed to be correctly represented by the linearized Navier--Stokes equations, and three…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-15 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Michael Karp , Navid. C. Constantinou

Most turbulence models used in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations are partial differential equations (PDE) that describe the transport of turbulent quantities. Such quantities include turbulent kinetic energy for eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-18 Ruiying Xu , Xu-Hui Zhou , Jiequn Han , Richard P. Dwight , Heng Xiao

Modeling unresolved turbulence in astrophysical gasdynamic simulations can improve the modeling of other subgrid processes dependent on the turbulent structure of gas: from flame propagation in the interiors of combusting white dwarfs to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Vadim A. Semenov

To date no satisfying model exists to explain the mean velocity profile within the whole turbulent layer of canonical wall bounded flows. We propose a modification of the velocity profile expression that ensues from a recently proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-10 Benoit Pinier , Etienne Mémin , Sylvain Laizet , Roger Lewandowski

This paper extends our recent theoretical work concerning the feasibility of stable and accurate computation of turbulence using a large eddy simulation [Ida and Taniguchi, Phys. Rev. E 68, 036705 (2003)]. In our previous paper, it was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masato Ida , Nobuyuki Taniguchi

Mathematical model of the turbulent flux in the three-layer boundary system is presented. Turbulence is described as a presence of the nonzero vorticity. Generalized advection-diffusion-reaction equation is derived for arbitrary number…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 I. I. Vasenev , I. S. Nurgaliev