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Fan-array wind generators (FAWGs) provide controlled turbulent inflow conditions that cannot be reproduced in conventional wind tunnels. Despite their increasing use in experimental studies, numerical modeling of FAWG-generated flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-22 M. Hosein Niroomand , Utku Şentürk

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

Data assimilation (DA) plays a crucial role in extracting valuable information from flow measurements in fluid dynamics problems. Often only time-averaged data is available, which poses challenges for DA in the context of unsteady flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-30 Justin Plogmann , Oliver Brenner , Patrick Jenny

High-order wave-making theories are becoming available but are limited to certain ranges of waves and wavemaker types in their applicability. Alternatively, machine learning can be considered to find nonlinear functional relationships.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-24 Yulin Xie , Xizeng Zhao

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in turbulence applications. They require accurately modeling the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor, for which traditional Reynolds stress closure models only yield…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

A local artificial neural network (LANN) framework is developed for turbulence modeling. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) unclosed terms are reconstructed by artificial neural network (ANN) based on the local coordinate system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chenyue Xie , Xiangming Xiong , Jianchun Wang

With this study we investigate the accuracy of deep learning models for the inference of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solutions. We focus on a modernized U-net architecture, and evaluate a large number of trained neural networks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Nils Thuerey , Konstantin Weissenow , Lukas Prantl , Xiangyu Hu

We present a machine learning-based framework for blending data-driven turbulent closures in the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations, aimed at improving their generalizability across diverse flow regimes. Specialized models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Mourad Oulghelou , Soufiane Cherroud , Xavier Merle , Paola Cinnella

This chapter provides an introduction to data-driven techniques for the development and calibration of closure models for the Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations. RANS models are the workhorse for engineering applications of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-16 Paola Cinnella

We introduce a novel approach to derive compressibility corrections for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. Using this approach, we derive variable-property corrections for wall-bounded flows that take into account the distinct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-17 Asif Manzoor Hasan , Alex Jose Elias , Florian Menter , Rene Pecnik

The constants and functions in Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models are coupled. Consequently, modifications of a RANS model often negatively impact its basic calibrations, which is why machine-learned augmentations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-17 Yuanwei Bin , George Huang , Robert Kunz , Xiang I A Yang

The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach remains a backbone for turbulence modeling due to its high cost-effectiveness. Its accuracy is largely based on a reliable Reynolds stress anisotropy tensor closure model. There has been…

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-04 Romit Maulik , Himanshu Sharma , Saumil Patel , Bethany Lusch , Elise Jennings

Despite their well-known limitations, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are still the workhorse tools for turbulent flow simulations in today's engineering application. For many practical flows, the turbulence models are by far…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 H. Xiao , J. -L. Wu , J. -X. Wang , R. Sun , C. J. Roy

The background of this work is the problem of reducing the aerodynamic turbulent friction drag, which is an important source of energy waste in innumerable technological fields. We develop a theoretical framework aimed at predicting the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-01-23 Marco Belan , Maurizio Quadrio

To expand the narrow response bandwidth of linear point wave energy absorbers (PWAs), a few research studies have recently proposed incorporating a bi-stable restoring force in the design of the absorber. Such studies have relied on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Mohammad A. Khasawneh , Mohammed F. Daqaq

This work introduces a novel data-driven framework to formulate explicit algebraic Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence closures. Recent years have witnessed a blossom in applying machine learning (ML) methods to revolutionize…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hongwei Tang , Yan Wang , Tongguang Wang , Linlin Tian

We model shallow-water waves using a one-dimensional Korteweg-de Vries equation with the wave generation parameterized by random wave amplitudes for a predefined sea state. These wave amplitudes define the high-dimensional stochastic input…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-10 Kenan Šehić , Henrik Bredmose , John D. Sørensen , Mirza Karamehmedović

In elastic wave systems, combining the powerful concepts of resonance and spatial grading within structured surface arrays enable resonant metasurfaces to exhibit broadband wave focusing, mode conversion from surface (Rayleigh) waves to…

In typical nature and engineering scenarios, such as supernova explosion and inertial confinement fusion, mixing flows induced by hydrodynamics interfacial instabilities are essentially compressible. Despite their significance, accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hansong Xie , Tengfei Luo , Yaomin Zhao , Yousheng Zhang , Jianchun Wang