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Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method will still play a vital role in the following several decade in aerospace engineering. Although RANS models are widely used, empiricism and large discrepancies between models reduce the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Weiwei Zhang , Linyang Zhu , Yilang Liu , Jiaqing Kou

Turbulent flow has been extensively studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations since turbulent flow regime is so frequently encountered in both academic and engineering applications. The high-fidelity simulation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Minghan Chu

Although Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are still the dominant tool for engineering design and analysis applications involving turbulent flows, standard RANS models are known to be unreliable in many flows of engineering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jin-Long Wu , Jian-Xun Wang , Heng Xiao , Julia Ling

Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations with turbulence closure models continue to play important roles in industrial flow simulations. However, the commonly used linear eddy viscosity models are intrinsically unable to handle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao , Rui Sun , Qiqi Wang

Data-driven techniques have improved the accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models in fluid dynamics. However, modeling separated flows remains challenging due to their complex physics and sensitivity to local conditions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ali Eidi , Tyler Buchanan , Letian Jiang , Richard P. Dwight

Turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community, universally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jian-Xun Wang , Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao

We solve a Bayesian inverse Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) problem that assimilates mean flow data by jointly reconstructing the mean flow field and learning its unknown RANS parameters. We devise an algorithm that learns the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 A. Kontogiannis , P. Nair , M. Loecher , D. B. Ennis , A. Marsden , M. P. Juniper

Despite a cost-effective option in practical engineering, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are facing the ever-growing demand for more accurate turbulence models. Recently, emerging machine learning techniques are making…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-04 Chao Jiang

In the turbulence modeling community, significant efforts have been made to quantify the uncertainties in the Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) models and to improve their predictive capabilities. Of crucial importance in these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Heng Xiao , Jin-Long Wu , Jian-xun Wang , Eric G. Paterson

A data-driven framework for formulation of closures of the Reynolds-Average Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations is presented. In recent years, the scientific community has turned to machine learning techniques to distill a wealth of highly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 S. Beetham , J. Capecelatro

We propose a data-driven, closure model for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations that incorporates aleatoric, model uncertainty. The proposed closure consists of two parts. A parametric one, which utilizes previously proposed,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Atul Agrawal , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

In order to achieve a virtual certification process and robust designs for turbomachinery, the uncertainty bounds for Computational Fluid Dynamics have to be known. The formulation of turbulence closure models implies a major source of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Marcel Matha , Karsten Kucharczyk , Christian Morsbach

A probabilistic machine learning model is introduced to augment the $k-\omega\ SST$ turbulence model in order to improve the modelling of separated flows and the generalisability of learnt corrections. Increasingly, machine learning methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Joel Ho , Nick Pepper , Tim Dodwell

Numerical simulations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering design and analysis involving turbulent flows. However, RANS simulations are known to be unreliable in many flows of engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 Jinlong Wu , Rui Sun , Sylvain Laizet , Heng Xiao

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

The Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) models are the most common form of model in turbulence simulations. They are used to calculate Reynolds stress tensor and give robust results for engineering flows. But RANS model predictions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Khashayar Nobarani , Seyed Esmaeil Razavi

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

Machine-learning (ML) techniques provide a new and encouraging perspective for constructing turbulence models for Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations. In this study, an iterative ML-RANS computational framework is proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Weishuo Liu , Jian Fang , Stefano Rolfo , Charles Moulinec , David R Emerson

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based transition modeling is widely used in aerospace applications but suffers inaccuracies due to the Boussinesq turbulent viscosity hypothesis. The eigenspace perturbation method can estimate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

Hypersonic flow conditions pose exceptional challenges for Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modeling. Critical phenomena include compressibility effects, shock/turbulent boundary layer interactions, turbulence-chemistry…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-30 Pratikkumar Raje , Eric Parish , Jean-Pierre Hickey , Paola Cinnella , Karthik Duraisamy