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Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Yuenong Ling , Imran Hayat , Konrad Goc , Adrian Lozano-Duran

The predictive accuracy of wall-modeled large eddy simulation is studied by systematic simulation campaigns of turbulent channel flow. The effect of wall model, grid resolution and anisotropy, numerical convective scheme and subgrid-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-01 Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Timofey Mukha , Mattias Liefvendahl

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…

This work investigates the current wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) capabilities of the open-source computational fluid dynamics solver OpenFOAM, which is used widely in academia and industry. This is achieved by a simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Christoffer Hansen , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

A posteriori analysis based upon a recently proposed non-dissipative large-eddy simulation framework for transcritical wall-bounded turbulence has been carried out. Due to the complexities arisen in such flows, the discretization requires…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-30 M. Bernades , F. Capuano , F. Duchaine , L. Jofre

A novel variant of Improved Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation based on a differential Reynolds-stress background model is presented. The approach aims to combine the advantages of anisotropy-resolving Reynolds-stress closures in the modelled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-25 Marius Herr , Rolf Radespiel , Axel Probst

Wall-bounded turbulence is relevant for many engineering and natural science applications, yet there are still aspects of its underlying physics that are not fully understood, particularly at high Reynolds numbers. In this study, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-04 Himani Garg , Lei Wang , Martin Andersson , Christer Fureby

Wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is widely recognized as a useful method for simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers. Nevertheless, a continual issue in different wall models is the shift of the mean velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Huan-Cong Liu , Chun-Xiao Xu , Wei-Xi Huang

We present a wall model for large-eddy simulation that incorporates surface-roughness effects and is applicable across low- and high-speed flows, for both transitional and fully rough conditions. The model, implemented using an artificial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-29 Rong Ma , Adrian Lozano-Duran

The paper is concerned with modeling and simulating approaches of wall distance functions based on Partial Differential Equations (PDE). The distance to the nearest wall is required for many industrial problems in Computational Fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Niklas Kühl

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

We extend the approach of wall modeling via function enrichment to detached-eddy simulation. The wall model aims at using coarse cells in the near-wall region by modeling the velocity profile in the viscous sublayer and log-layer. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Benjamin Krank , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall

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

This paper studies the large-eddy simulation (LES) of isothermal turbulent channel flows. We investigate zero-equation algebraic models without wall function or wall model: functional models, structural models and mixed models. In addition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-09 Dorian Dupuy , Adrien Toutant , Françoise Bataille

A unified subgrid-scale (SGS) and wall model for large-eddy simulation (LES) is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks that enables the prediction of the eddy viscosity. The core assumption of the model is that…

Wall-pressure fluctuations beneath turbulent boundary layers drive noise and structural fatigue through interactions between fluid and structural modes. Conventional predictive models for the spectrum--such as the widely accepted Goody…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Jonathan M. O. Massey , Alexander J. Smits , Beverley J. McKeon

The development of a wall model using machine learning methods for the large-eddy simulation (LES) of separated flows is still an unsolved problem. Our approach is to leverage the significance of separated flow data, for which existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-25 Zhideng Zhou , Xin-lei Zhang , Guo-wei He , Xiaolei Yang

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

The variance and spectra of wall-normal velocities are investigated for direct numerical simulations of turbulent flow in a channel, pipe, and zero-pressure-gradient boundary layer across a decade of friction Reynolds numbers. Spectra along…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-22 Michael Heisel , Rahul Deshpande , Gabriel G. Katul

The problem of an accurate Eulerian-Lagrangian modeling of inertial particle dispersion in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent wall-bounded flows is addressed. We run Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for turbulent channel flow at…

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