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In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach - solving numerically the large scales of a turbulent system and accounting for the small-scale influence through a model - is applied to nonlinear gyrokinetic systems that are driven by a number of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Bañón Navarro , B. Teaca , F. Jenko , G. W. Hammett , T. Happel , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

When simulating multiscale systems, where some fields cannot be fully prescribed despite their effects on the simulation's accuracy, closure models are needed. This phenomenon is observed in turbulent fluid dynamics, where Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Eduardo Vital , Jean-Marc Gratien , Yassine Ayoun , Thibault Faney , Julien Bohbot

In this paper we propose a new modeling framework for large eddy simulations (LES) of particle-laden turbulent flows that captures the interaction between the particle and fluid phase on both the resolved and subgrid-scales. Unlike the vast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 Max Hausmann , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

We live in an age in which high-performance computing is transforming the way we do science. Previously intractable problems are now becoming accessible by means of increasingly realistic numerical simulations. One of the most enduring and…

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

The present study gives an overview and emphasizes principal moments of the applications of the turbulence-resolving modeling with large-eddy simulation (LES) numerical technique to planetary boundary layer (PBL) research and climate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-02 Igor Esau

We present a one-equation subgrid scale model that evolves the turbulence energy corresponding to unresolved velocity fluctuations in large eddy simulations. The model is derived in the context of the Germano consistent decomposition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , W. Hillebrandt

Current design constraints have encouraged the studies of aeroacoustics fields around compressible jet flows. The present work addresses the numerical study of subgrid scale modeling for unsteady turbulent jet flows as a preliminary step…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-03 Carlos Junqueira-Junior , Sami Yamouni , Joao Luiz F. Azevedo , William Wolf

The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach is adapted to the study of plasma microturbulence in a fully three-dimensional gyrokinetic system. Ion temperature gradient driven turbulence is studied with the {\sc GENE} code for both a standard…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 P. Morel , A. Bañón Navarro , M. Albrecht-Marc , D. Carati , F. Merz , T. Görler , F. Jenko

Large eddy simulation (LES) of forced, homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional (2D) turbulence in the energy transfer subrange is the subject of this paper. A difficulty specific to this LES and its subgrid scale (SGS) representation is in…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Semion Sukoriansky , Alexei Chekhlov , Boris Galperin , Steven A. Orszag

High Reynolds Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence is fully described within the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, which are notoriously difficult to solve numerically. Engineers, interested primarily in describing turbulence at a reduced range of…

Most sub-grid scale (SGS) models employed in LES (large eddy simulation) formulations were originally developed for incompressible, single phase, inert flows and assume transfer of energy based on the classical energy cascade mechanism.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-13 Jhon Cordova , Cesar Celis , Andres Mendiburu , Luis Bravo , Prashant Khare

We investigate turbulence generated by cosmological structure formation by means of large eddy simulations using adaptive mesh refinement. In contrast to the widely used implicit large eddy simulations, which resolve a limited range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 W. Schmidt , A. S. Almgren , H. Braun , J. F. Engels , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Schulz , R. R. Mekuria , A. J. Aspden , J. B. Bell

In this paper, we have used renormalized viscosity for performing large eddy simulations (LES) of decaying homogeneous and isotropic turbulence inside a periodic cube on coarse grids ($32^3$, $64^3$ and $128^3$) at initial Taylor Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumit Vashishtha , Anando Chatterjee , Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K Verma

Explicit filtering in large eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent barotropic flow on the sphere in spectral space is studied and compared to implicit filtering. Here, a smooth filter is applied to the nondivergent barotropic vorticity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-08 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples

Due to the prohibitive cost of resolving all relevant scales, direct numerical simulations of turbulence remain unfeasible for most real-world applications. Consequently, dynamically simplified formulations are needed for coarse-grained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 F. Xavier Trias , Jesús Ruano , Alexey Duben , Andrey Gorobets

The explicit filtering method for large eddy simulation (LES,) which comprises integration of the governing equations without any added terms for sub-grid-scale modeling, and the application of a low-pass filter to transported fields, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-06 Joseph Mathew

The rational large eddy simulation (RLES) model is applied to turbulent channel flows. This approximate deconvolution model is based on a rational (subdiagonal Pade') approximation of the Fourier transform of the Gaussian filter and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 T. Iliescu , P. Fischer

Numerical simulations of atmospheric circulation models are limited by their finite spatial resolution, and so large eddy simulation (LES) is the preferred approach to study these models. In LES a low-pass filter is applied to the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples
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