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This paper introduces a high order numerical framework for efficient and robust simulation of compressible flows. To address the inefficiencies of standard hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods in large scale settings, we develop…
We introduce a new Large Eddy Simulation model in a channel, based on the projection on finite element spaces as filtering operation in its variational form, for a given triangulation $\{{\cal T}_h \}_{h>0}$. The eddy viscosity is expressed…
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…
Local interscale energy transfer in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is typically diagnosed using the subgrid-scale (SGS) production, $\Pi^{SGS}$. In this work, an exact algebraic gauge identity is derived, demonstrating that $\Pi^{SGS}$ is…
This work deals with Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of turbulent gravity currents, performed by means of a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) Finite Element method. In particular, a DG-LES approach in which the…
The accuracy of a large eddy simulation (LES) is determined by the accuracy of the model used to describe the effect of unresolved scales, the numerical errors of the resolved scales, and the optimality of the length scale that separates…
Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent non-Newtonian flows involves two additional closures, namely the Non-Newtonian SubGrid-Scale (NNSGS) stress tensor and filtered viscosity. Here, dynamic closures are proposed for NNSGS, eliminating…
Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) is a promising approach for secure underwater quantum communications (UQCs), where propagation loss, scattering, turbulence, and receiver thermal noise can severely degrade the…
Symmetry-based analyses of multiscale velocity gradients highlight that strain self-amplification (SS) and vortex stretching (VS) drive forward energy transfer in turbulent flows. By contrast, a strain-vorticity covariance mechanism…
We present a framework for discussing LES equations with nonlinear dispersion. In this framework, we discuss the properties of the nonlinearly dispersive Navier-Stokes-alpha model of incompressible fluid turbulence --- also called the…
We study the sub-grid scale characteristics of a vorticity-transport-based approach for large-eddy simulations. In particular, we consider a multi-dimensional upwind scheme for the vorticity transport equations and establish its properties…
Large eddy simulation (LES) has become the de-facto computational tool for modeling complex reacting flows, especially in gas turbine applications. However, readily usable general-purpose LES codes for complex geometries are typically…
The dynamic model for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows requires test filtering the resolved velocity fields in order to determine model coefficients. However, test filtering is costly to perform in large-eddy simulation of…
Volume conserving surface (VCS) models without deposition and evaporation, as well as ideal molecular-beam epitaxy models, are prototypes to study the symmetries of conserved dynamics. In this work we study two similar VCS models with…
Deconvolutional artificial neural network (DANN) models are developed for subgrid-scale (SGS) stress in large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence. The filtered velocities at different spatial points are used as input features of the DANN…
We present a novel implementation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPHS) that uses the spatial derivative of the velocity divergence as a higher order dissipation switch. Our switch -- which is second order accurate -- detects flow…
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…
The continuum approach employing porous media models is a robust and efficient solution method in the area of the simulation of fixed-bed reactors. This paper applies the double-averaging methodology to refine the continuum approach,…
We present a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach based on a nonlinear differential low-pass filter for the simulation of two-dimensional barotropic flows with under-refined meshes. For the implementation of such model, we choose a…
A numerical algorithm for solving mantle convection problems with strongly variable viscosity is presented. Equations for conservation of mass and momentum for highly viscous and incompressible fluids are solved iteratively by a multigrid…