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Modeled Reynolds stress is a major source of model-form uncertainties in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. Recently, a physics-informed machine-learning (PIML) approach has been proposed for reconstructing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-23 Jian-Xun Wang , Junji Huang , Lian Duan , Heng Xiao

Extensive experimental evidence highlight that scalar turbulence exhibits anomalous diffusion and stronger intermittency levels at small scales compared to that in fluid turbulence. This renders the corresponding subgrid-scale dynamics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 S. Hadi Seyedi , Ali Akhavan-Safaei , Mohsen Zayernouri

Data-driven turbulence modeling has been considered an effective method for improving the prediction accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Related studies aimed to solve the discrepancy of traditional turbulence modeling by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuhui Yin , Pu Yang , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen , Song Fu

We solve a Bayesian inverse Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) problem that assimilates mean flow data by jointly reconstructing the mean flow field and learning its unknown RANS parameters. We devise an algorithm that learns the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 A. Kontogiannis , P. Nair , M. Loecher , D. B. Ennis , A. Marsden , M. P. Juniper

With the continuing progress in large eddy simulations (LES), and ever increasing computational resources, it is currently possible to numerically solve the time-dependent and anisotropic large scales of turbulence in a large variety of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-14 Ryan D. Hass , Aditya S. Ghate , Sanjiva K. Lele

In the hybrid RANS-LES simulations, proper turbulent fluctuations should be added at the RANS-to-LES interface to drive the numerical solution restoring to a physically resolved turbulence as rapidly as possible. Such turbulence generation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-07 Qilong Guo , Pengxin Liu , Chen Li , Dong Sun , Xianxu Yuan

Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulent flows is computationally expensive and cannot be applied to flows with large Reynolds numbers. Large eddy simulation (LES) is an alternative that is computationally less demanding, but is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-09 Shengyu Chen , Shervin Sammak , Peyman Givi , Joseph P. Yurko1 , Xiaowei Jia

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

We show that in addition to providing effective and competitive closures, when analysed in terms of dynamics and physically-relevant diagnostics, artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be both interpretable and provide useful insights in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Gavin D. Portwood , Balasubramanya T. Nadiga , Juan A. Saenz , Daniel Livescu

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models (such as k-\epsilon models) are still widely used for engineering applications because of their relatively simplicity and robustness. In fully developed plane channel flow (i.e. the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-01 Najla El Gharbi , Rafik Absi , Ahmed Benzaoui

Simulating massively separated turbulent flows over bodies is one of the major applications for large-eddy simulation (LES). In the current work, we propose a machine-learning-based LES framework for the rapid simulation of turbulent flows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Yunpeng Wang , Huiyu Yang , Zelong Yuan , Zhijie Li , Wenhui Peng , Jianchun Wang

We introduce a data-driven learning framework that assimilates two powerful ideas: ideal large eddy simulation (LES) from turbulence closure modeling and neural stochastic differential equations (SDE) for stochastic modeling. The ideal LES…

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

Simulations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) models have been used to support high-consequence decisions related to turbulent flows. Apart from the deterministic model predictions, the decision makers are often equally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jian-Xun Wang , Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao

A new model for the "rapid" part of the velocity/pressure-gradient correlation in the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations is suggested. It is shown that in an inhomogeneous incompressible turbulent flow, the model that is linear in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Svetlana V. Poroseva

The development of turbulent mixing layers can be altered by the application of anisotropic strain rates, potentially arising from radial motion in convergent geometry or movement through non-uniform geometry. Previous closure models and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-01 Bradley Pascoe , Michael Groom , Ben Thornber

A central obstacle to understanding the route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows is that the flows are composed of complex, highly fluctuating, and strongly nonlinear states. In the case of pipe flow, models have deepened our understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Santiago J. Benavides , Dwight Barkley

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

Turbulent flows have historically presented formidable challenges to predictive computational modeling. Traditional numerical simulations often require vast computational resources, making them infeasible for numerous engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Han Gao , Xu Han , Xiantao Fan , Luning Sun , Li-Ping Liu , Lian Duan , Jian-Xun Wang

A wall model for large-eddy simulation (LES) is proposed by devising the flow as a combination of building blocks. The core assumption of the model is that a finite set of simple canonical flows contains the essential physics to predict the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-07 Adrián Lozano-Durán , H. Jane Bae