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The main objective of this work is to develop a unified framework that can be used as a lens to quantitatively assess and augment a wide range of coarse-grained models of turbulence, viz. large eddy simulations (LES), hybrid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 Aniruddhe Pradhan , Karthik Duraisamy

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 describe the set of ``New Worlds Simulations'', three very large cosmology simulations, Qo'noS, Vulcan, and Ferenginar, that were carried out on the Summit supercomputer with the Hardware/Hybrid Cosmology Code, HACC. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Katrin Heitmann , Thomas Uram , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Adrian Pope , Silvio Rizzi , Joe Insley

We present the results from three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of decaying high-speed turbulence in dense molecular clouds. We compare our results, which include a detailed cooling function, molecular hydrogen chemistry and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Georgi Pavlovski , Michael D. Smith , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Alexander Rosen

Direct and large eddy simulations of hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulence have been performed in an attempt to isolate artifacts from real and possibly asymptotic features in the energy spectra. It is shown that in a hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. E. L. Haugen , A. Brandenburg

Fluid simulation is an important research topic in computer graphics (CG) and animation in video games. Traditional methods based on Navier-Stokes equations are computationally expensive. In this paper, we treat fluid motion as point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yu Chen , Shuai Zheng , Nianyi Wang , Menglong Jin , Yan Chang

Turbulent dynamics in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of magnetic fusion devices is intermittent with large fluctuations in density and pressure. Therefore, a model is required that allows perturbations of similar or even larger magnitude to the…

We study the chaotic properties of a turbulent conducting fluid using direct numerical simulation in the Eulerian frame. The maximal Lyapunov exponent is measured for simulations with varying Reynolds number and magnetic Prandtl number. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Richard Ho , Arjun Berera , Daniel Clark

A challenging and fundamental research problem is the better understanding and control of the turbulent transport of heat in present-day tokamak fusion experiments. Recent developments in numerical methods along with enormous gains in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Jeremy Kepner , Scott Parker , Viktor Decyk

Modelling the sudden depressurisation of superheated liquids through nozzles is a challenge because the pressure drop causes rapid flash boiling of the liquid. The resulting jet usually demonstrates a wide range of structures, including…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-15 David Schmidt , Romit Maulik , Konstantinos G. Lyras

In this paper a numerical procedure to simulate low diffusivity scalar turbulence is presented. The method consists of using a grid for the advected scalar with a higher spatial resolutions than that of the momentum. The latter usually…

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework for fluid-flow prediction is developed on the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) platform. The TPU architecture is featured with accelerated dense matrix multiplication, large high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Qing Wang , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson

A Full Turbulence Simulation (FTS) of turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds number (Re_tau) approx 1000 was performed by resolving the Kolmogorov wavenumber in all spatial directions. At this Reynolds number, the intermediate layer…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yoshinobu Yamamoto , Yoshiyuki Tsuji

This is the first attempt to construct detailed X-ray spectra of clusters of galaxies from the results of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations and simulate X-ray observations in order to study velocity fields of the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada , Tae Furusho

In astrophysics, the two main methods traditionally in use for solving the Euler equations of ideal fluid dynamics are smoothed particle hydrodynamics and finite volume discretization on a stationary mesh. However, the goal to efficiently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Andreas Bauer , Kevin Schaal , Volker Springel , Praveen Chandrashekar , Rüdiger Pakmor , Christian Klingenberg

FEARLESS (Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large Eddy SimulationS) is a numerical scheme for modelling subgrid-scale turbulence in cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulations. In this contribution, the main features of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-18 L. Iapichino , W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Merklein

We analyze a suite of thin sheet magnetohydrodynamical simulations based on the formulation of Basu, Ciolek, Dapp & Wurster. These simulations allow us to examine the observational consequences to a star-forming region of varying the input…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Helen Kirk , Doug Johnstone , Shantanu Basu

The formation of astrophysical structures, such as stars, compact objects but also galaxies, entail an,enhancement of densities by many orders of magnitude which occurs through gravitational collapse. The role played by turbulence during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 Patrick Hennebelle

We adopted an unstructured hydrodynamical solver CharLES to the problem of global convection in the Sun. With the aim to investigate the properties of solar turbulent convection and reproduce differential rotation pattern. We performed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Chunlei Liang , Frank Ham

We present direct numerical simulations of mixing at Rayleigh-Taylor unstable interfaces performed with the FLASH code, developed at the ASCI/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes at the University of Chicago. We present…