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Hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes large eddy simulation (RANS LES) methods have become popular for simulation of massively separated flows at high Reynolds numbers due to their reduced computational cost and good accuracy. The current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-19 Gaurav Kumar , Ashoke De , Harish Gopalan

We present direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of bypass transition over a flat plate with inlet freestream turbulence intensity levels of 0.75%, 1.5%, 2.25%, 3.0%, and 6.0%, respectively. A new definition of the transition intermittency is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-28 Carlos A. Gonzalez , Rahul Agrawal , Xiaohua Wu

This paper applies Bayesian-optimization-RANS (turbo-RANS) to improve Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models for a converging-diverging channel, a case with adverse pressure gradients and flow separation. Using Bayesian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Nikhila Kalia , Ryley McConkey , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

Turbulence is ubiquitous in engineering and science, yet direct simulation is prohibitively expensive. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations provide savings exceeding ten orders of magnitude but introduce unclosed terms (the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daniel Dehtyriov , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

Wing-body junction flows occur when a boundary layer encounters an airfoil mounted on the surface. The corner flow near the trailing edge is challenging for the linear eddy viscosity Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models, due to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-20 Jin-Long Wu , Jian-Xun Wang , Heng Xiao

The modeling of turbulent flows is critical to scientific and engineering problems ranging from aircraft design to weather forecasting and climate prediction. Over the last sixty years numerous turbulence models have been proposed, largely…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Guido Novati , Hugues Lascombes de Laroussilhe , Petros Koumoutsakos

Design exploration or optimization using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is commonly used in the industry. Geometric variation is a key component of such design problems, especially in turbulent flow scenarios, which involves running…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Shinjan Ghosh , Julian Busch , Georgia Olympia Brikis , Biswadip Dey

Simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds number is a computationally challenging task relevant to a large number of engineering and scientific applications in diverse fields such as climate science, aerodynamics, and combustion.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jaideep Pathak , Mustafa Mustafa , Karthik Kashinath , Emmanuel Motheau , Thorsten Kurth , Marcus Day

Accurate and generalizable Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models for turbulent flows rely on effective closures, but currently available closures are notoriously unreliable. Kassinos et al. (J. Fluid Mechanics, 428, pp. 213-248,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Aaron Miller , Sahil Kommalapati , Robert Moser , Petros Koumoutsakos

We present UniFoil, a large publicly available universal airfoil dataset based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. It contains over 500,000 samples spanning a wide range of Reynolds and Mach numbers, capturing both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-30 Rohit Sunil Kanchi , Benjamin Melanson , Nithin Somasekharan , Shaowu Pan , Sicheng He

Accurate prediction of mixing transition induced by interfacial instabilities is vital for engineering applications, but has remained a great challenge for decades. For engineering practices, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-02 Hansong Xie , Mengjuan Xiao , Yousheng Zhang , Yaomin Zhao

Turbulence is a complex, irregular flow phenomenon ubiquitous in natural processes and engineering applications. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method, owing to its low computational cost, has become the primary approach for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ziqi Ji , Penghao Duan , Gang Du

Experimental measurements and numerical simulations of turbulent flows are characterised by a trade-off between accuracy and resolution. In this study, we combine accurate sparse pointwise mean velocity measurements with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yusuf Patel , Vincent Mons , Olivier Marquet , Georgios Rigas

In aerodynamic design, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools has long relied on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Unsteady RANS (URANS) turbulence models. However, these methods face limitations in predicting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Francesco Mario D'Afiero , Renato Tognaccini , Gianluca Iaccarino

With the rapid advancement of machine learning techniques, the development and study of machine learning turbulence models have become increasingly prevalent. As a critical component of turbulence modeling, the constitutive relationship…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ziqi Ji , Penghao Duan , Gang Du

A priori tests of turbulence models for the compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) are performed by using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) data of zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate turbulent boundary layers. The DNS database…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-17 Sciacovelli L. , Cannici A. , Passiatore D. , Cinnella P

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations require accurate modeling of the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor. Traditional closure models, while sophisticated, often only apply to restricted flow configurations. Researchers have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

Deep learning (DL)-based Reynolds stress with its capability to leverage values of large data can be used to close Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stoke (RANS) equations. Type I and Type II machine learning (ML) frameworks are studied to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-28 Chih-Wei Chang , Nam T. Dinh

Use of appropriate initialization to warm-start Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of turbulent flow can facilitate convergence and lead to efficient use of computational resources. In this work, a method to model downstream…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-27 Kazuko W. Fuchi , Eric M. Wolf , Christopher R. Schrock , Philip S. Beran

We propose a framework for developing wall models for large-eddy simulation that is able to capture pressure-gradient effects using multi-agent reinforcement learning. Within this framework, the distributed reinforcement learning agents…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-29 Di Zhou , H. Jane Bae