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High Reynolds Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence is fully described within the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, which are notoriously difficult to solve numerically. Engineers, interested primarily in describing turbulence at a reduced range of…

Models for solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are popular tools for predicting complex turbulent flows due to their computational affordability and ability to provide or estimate quantities of engineering interest.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-10 Ty Homan , Omkar B. Shende , Ali Mani

In this paper, we have used renormalized viscosity for performing large eddy simulations (LES) of decaying homogeneous and isotropic turbulence inside a periodic cube on coarse grids ($32^3$, $64^3$ and $128^3$) at initial Taylor Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumit Vashishtha , Anando Chatterjee , Abhishek Kumar , Mahendra K Verma

An analysis of the turbulence-radiation interaction in the framework of large eddy simulation (LES) is presented. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of statistical steady forced homogeneous isotropic turbulence is used to evaluate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-14 Maxime Roger , Pedro Coelho , Carlos Da Silva

Despite well-known limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, this methodology remains the most widely used tool for predicting many turbulent flows, due to computational efficiency. Machine learning is a promising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryley McConkey , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

We generalize the `filtering spectrum' [1] to probe scales along different directions by spatial coarse-graining. This multi-dimensional filtering spectrum quantifies the spectral content of flows that are not necessarily homogeneous. From…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-20 Dongxiao Zhao , Hussein Aluie

Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-09 Jahrul M Alam , Luke P. J. Fitzpatrick

Reliably predictive simulation of complex flows requires a level of model sophistication and robustness exceeding the capabilities of current Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. The necessary capability can often be provided by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Sigfried W. Haering , Todd A. Oliver , Robert D. Moser

We propose a new model of turbulence for use in large-eddy simulations (LES). The turbulent force, represented here by the turbulent Lamb vector, is divided in two contributions. The contribution including only subfilter fields is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Philippe Laval , Berengere Dubrulle

In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

Large eddy simulations (LES) are a powerful tool in understanding processes that are inaccessible by direct simulations due to their complexity, for example, in the highly turbulent regime. However, their accuracy and success depends on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Philipp Grete , Dimitar G Vlaykov , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-05 Daniel Foti , Karthik Duraisamy

Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are becoming increasingly viable due to the growth in computational power the last few decades, and subgrid stress modelling plays a large role in the accuracy of LES. A new class of neural network models, S4…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 Andy Wu , Sanjiva K. Lele

Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Amrik Sen , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg , Annick pouquet

The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach is adapted to the study of plasma microturbulence in a fully three-dimensional gyrokinetic system. Ion temperature gradient driven turbulence is studied with the {\sc GENE} code for both a standard…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 P. Morel , A. Bañón Navarro , M. Albrecht-Marc , D. Carati , F. Merz , T. Görler , F. Jenko

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…

There is wide agreement that the accuracy of turbulence models suffer from their sensitivity with respect to physical input data, the uncertainties of user-elected parameters, as well as the model inadequacy. However, the application of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Hoang A. Tran , Clayton G. Webster , Guannan Zhang

In this paper we employ renormalized viscosity and thermal diffusivity to construct a subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent thermal convection. For LES, we add $\nu_\mathrm{ren} \propto \Pi_u^{1/3}…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-31 Sumit Vashishtha , Mahendra K. Verma

A new method for the localization of the regions where small scale turbulent fluctuations are present in hypersonic flows is applied to the large-eddy simulation (LES) of a compressible turbulent jet with an initial Mach number equal to 5.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Tordella , M. Iovieno , S. Massaglia , A. Mignone

By combining AI and fluid physics, we discover a closed-form closure for 2D turbulence from small direct numerical simulation (DNS) data. Large-eddy simulation (LES) with this closure is accurate and stable, reproducing DNS statistics…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Karan Jakhar , Yifei Guan , Pedram Hassanzadeh