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The study presents wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (LES) characterizing the flow features of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer over two urban-like roughness geometries: an array of three-dimensional square prisms and the…

Accurate prediction of wake dynamics behind hydrofoils is critical for mitigating vortex-induced vibrations and improving the performance of hydraulic machinery. Conventional turbulence modeling approaches often struggle to capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-30 Gabriele Gaiti , Chirag Trivedi , Kristian F. Sagmo

Measurement techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Velocimety (MRV) and Magnetic Resonance Concentration (MRC) are useful for obtaining 3D time-averaged flow quantities in complex turbulent flows, but cannot measure turbulent correlations or…

We present a variant of the immersed boundary method integrated with octree meshes for highly efficient and accurate Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of flows around complex geometries. We demonstrate the scalability of the proposed method up…

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

The interaction of trailing and leading vortex structures in low Reynolds number forced (varicose) jet with coflow is studied using Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), where we report the dynamics of these vortices for a range of varying…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-22 Bharat Bhatia , Ashoke De

In this paper, wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is carried out with Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings (FW-H) acoustic analogy to investigate the turbulent flow and hydrodynamic noise of an axisymmetric body of revolution. We first…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-16 Peng Jiang , Shijun Liao , Bin Xie

Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Flavio A. C. Martins , Alexander van Zuijlen , Carlos J. Simao Ferreira

We study the numerical errors of large-eddy simulation (LES) in isotropic and wall-bounded turbulence. A direct-numerical-simulation (DNS)-aided LES formulation, where the subgrid-scale (SGS) term of the LES is computed by using filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-05 H. Jane Bae , Adrian Lozano-Duran

This study investigates the Reynolds-number dependence of shock-induced flow through particle layers at 10\% volume fraction, using ensemble-averaged results from particle-resolved large eddy simulations. The advantage of using large eddy…

Numerical simulations of turbulent round jets, using explicit-filtered LES technique, are performed, for three different Reynolds numbers(Re = 3600, 88000, 400000), to understand the Reynolds number effect on subsonic jets with Mach number…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Ramanathan Varadharajan

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows is computationally expensive and cannot be applied to flows with large Reynolds numbers. Large eddy simulation (LES) is an alternative that is computationally less demanding, but is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-09 Shengyu Chen , Shervin Sammak , Peyman Givi , Joseph P. Yurko1 , Xiaowei Jia

The leading edge vortex (LEV) is one of the most important lift augmentation mechanisms in flapping wing aerodynamics. We propose a methodology that aims to provide a quantitative description of the LEV. The first step of the method…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Alejandro Gonzalo , Manuel Garcia-Villalba , Oscar Flores

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

We investigate the spatial distributions and production mechanisms of vorticity and turbulent kinetic energy around a finite NACA 0018 wing with square wingtip profile at $Re_c=10^4$ and $10^{\circ}$ angle of attack with the aid of Direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Juan Carlos Bilbao-Ludena , George Papadakis

This paper presents the large-eddy simulation of the lid-driven cubic cavity flow by the spectral element method (SEM) using the dynamic model. Two spectral filtering techniques suitable for these simulations have been implemented.…

This work is concerned with the numerical investigation of the dynamics of stopping vortex formation in the uniform flow past a wedge mounted on a wall for channel Reynolds number $Re_c=1560$. The streamfunction-vorticity ($\psi$-$\omega$)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-06 Jiten C Kalita

We report the first high-order eddy-resolving simulation of flow over a marine propeller using a recently developed high-order sliding-mesh method. This method employs the flux reconstruction framework and a new dynamic curved mortar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-07 Bin Zhang , Chi Ding , Chunlei Liang

(Abridged) In the implicit large eddy simulation (ILES) paradigm, the dissipative nature of high-resolution shock-capturing schemes is exploited to provide an implicit model of turbulence. Recent 3D simulations suggest that turbulence might…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-21 David Radice , Sean M. Couch , Christian D. Ott

We consider the question of fundamental limitations on the performance of eddy-viscosity closure models for turbulent flows, focusing on the Leith model for 2D {Large-Eddy Simulation}. Optimal eddy viscosities depending on the magnitude of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-29 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas