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Complex turbulent flow simulations are an integral aspect of the engineering design process. The mainstay of these simulations is represented by eddy viscosity based turbulence models. Eddy viscosity models are computationally cheap due to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-14 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

Standard eddy viscosity models, while robust, cannot represent backscatter and have severe difficulties with complex turbulence not at statistical equilibrium. This report gives a new derivation of eddy viscosity models from an equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Nan Jiang , William Layton

Simulations of complex turbulent flow are part and parcel of the engineering design process. Eddy viscosity based turbulence models represent the workhorse for these simulations. The underlying simplifications in eddy viscosity models make…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-15 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

When simulating multiscale systems, where some fields cannot be fully prescribed despite their effects on the simulation's accuracy, closure models are needed. This phenomenon is observed in turbulent fluid dynamics, where Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Eduardo Vital , Jean-Marc Gratien , Yassine Ayoun , Thibault Faney , Julien Bohbot

Classical eddy viscosity models add a viscosity term with turbulent viscosity coefficient developed beginning with the Kolmogorov-Prandtl parameterization. Approximations of unknown accuracy of the unknown mixing lengths and turbulent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 William Layton

Fluid turbulence is an important problem for physics and engineering. Turbulence modeling deals with the development of simplified models that can act as surrogates for representing the effects of turbulence on flow evolution. Such models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-16 J P Panda

We consider the question of fundamental limitations on the performance of eddy-viscosity closure models for turbulent flows, focusing on the Leith model for 2D {Large-Eddy Simulation}. Optimal eddy viscosities depending on the magnitude of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-29 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas

We consider a circulation system arising in turbulence modelling in fluid dynamics with unbounded eddy viscosities. Various notions of weak solutions are considered and compared. We establish existence and regularity results. In particular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-10-03 Pierre Dreyfuss

Classical eddy viscosity models of turbulence add an eddy viscosity term based on the Kolmogorov-Prandtl parameterization by a turbulent length scale $l$ and a turbulent kinetic energy $k^{\prime }$. Approximations of the unknowns…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-31 William Layton , Nanda Nechingal Raghunathan

This is the second part to our companion paper. The novel method to quantify artificial dissipation proposed in Part 1 is further applied in turbulent channel flow at $\mathrm{Re_\tau}=180$ using various subgrid-scale models, with an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-03 Jing Sun , Roel Verstappen

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using turbulence models are commonly used in engineering design. Of the different turbulence modeling approaches that are available, eddy viscosity based models are the most common for their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

To date no satisfying model exists to explain the mean velocity profile within the whole turbulent layer of canonical wall bounded flows. We propose a modification of the velocity profile expression that ensues from a recently proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-10 Benoit Pinier , Etienne Mémin , Sylvain Laizet , Roger Lewandowski

In this work, we present a novel data-based approach to turbulence modelling for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) by artificial neural networks. We define the exact closure terms including the discretization operators and generate training data…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Andrea D. Beck , David G. Flad , Claus-Dieter Munz

Coarse resolution numerical ocean models must typically include a parameterisation for mesoscale turbulence. A common recipe for such parameterisations is to invoke down-gradient mixing, or diffusion, of some tracer quantity, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julian Mak , James R. Maddison , David P. Marshall

Vertical mixing parameterizations in ocean models are formulated on the basis of the physical principles that govern turbulent mixing. However, many parameterizations include ad hoc components that are not well constrained by theory or…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Aakash Sane , Brandon G. Reichl , Alistair Adcroft , Laure Zanna

This paper extends our recent theoretical work concerning the feasibility of stable and accurate computation of turbulence using a large eddy simulation [Ida and Taniguchi, Phys. Rev. E 68, 036705 (2003)]. In our previous paper, it was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masato Ida , Nobuyuki Taniguchi

This paper addresses two significant drawbacks of an eddy viscosity turbulence model: the issue of excessive dissipation relative to energy input and the lack of a universal parameter specification. Considering the Baldwin-Lomax model with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Ali Pakzad , Farjana Siddiqua

We present a one-equation subgrid scale model that evolves the turbulence energy corresponding to unresolved velocity fluctuations in large eddy simulations. The model is derived in the context of the Germano consistent decomposition of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Schmidt , J. C. Niemeyer , W. Hillebrandt

We investigate eddy-viscosity distributions in pressure-driven wall turbulence for three canonical configurations: plane closed-channel flow, open-channel flow with a free-slip surface, and pipe flow. Using direct numerical simulation (DNS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Ben-Rui Xu , Ao Xu

The dimensionality of turbulence in fluid layers determines their properties. We study electromagnetically driven flows in finite depth fluid layers and show that eddy viscosity, which appears as a result of three-dimensional motions, leads…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-27 M. Shats , D. Byrne , H. Xia
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