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Recently, stochastic, as opposed to deterministic, parameterizations are being investigated to model the effects of unresolved subgrid scales (SGS) in large eddy simulations (LES) of geophysical flows. We analyse such a stochastic approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jinqiao Duan , Balasubramanya T. Nadiga

The explicit filtering method for large eddy simulation (LES,) which comprises integration of the governing equations without any added terms for sub-grid-scale modeling, and the application of a low-pass filter to transported fields, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-06 Joseph Mathew

The primary objective of this work is to develop coarse-graining schemes for stochastic many-body microscopic models and quantify their effectiveness in terms of a priori and a posteriori error analysis. In this paper we focus on stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac , Luc Rey-Bellet , Dimitrios K. Tsagkarogiannis

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

The $\alpha$-modeling strategy is followed to derive a new subgrid parameterization of the turbulent stress tensor in large-eddy simulation (LES). The LES-$\alpha$ modeling yields an explicitly filtered subgrid parameterization which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard J. Geurts , Darryl D. Holm

Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is a very useful tool when simulating turbulent flows if we are only interested in its "larger" scales. One of the possible ways to derive the LES equations is to apply a filter operator to the Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 José M. Rodríguez , Raquel Taboada-Vázquez

We provide analytical and numerical results concerning multi-scale correlations between the resolved velocity field and the subgrid-scale (SGS) stress-tensor in large eddy simulations (LES). Following previous studies for Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-08 Moritz Linkmann , Michele Buzzicotti , Luca Biferale

Grid adaptation for implicit Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is a non-trivial challenge due to the inherent coupling of the modeling and numerical errors. An attempt to address the challenge first requires a comprehensive assessment and then…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Yao Jiang , Siva Nadarajah

Large eddy simulation (LES) has become a central technique for simulating turbulent flows in engineering and applied sciences, offering a compromise between accuracy and computational cost by resolving large scale motions and modeling the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-27 Rik Hoekstra , Wouter Edeling

The Eulerian-Lagrangian approach based on Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) is one of the most promising and viable numerical tools to study turbulent dispersed flows when the computational cost of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) becomes too…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-02 Alessio Innocenti , Cristian Marchioli , Sergio Chibbaro

One issue associated with the use of Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) to investigate the dispersion of small inertial particles in turbulent flows is the accuracy with which particle statistics and concentration can be reproduced. The motion of…

We introduce a wall model (WM) for large-eddy simulation (LES) applicable to rough surfaces with Gaussian and non-Gaussian distributions for both transitionally and fully rough regimes. The model is applicable to arbitrary complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Rong Ma , Adrian Lozano-Duran

Data-driven subgrid-scale (SGS) modeling in the large-eddy simulations (LES) suffers from the inconsistency between the \textit{a priori} tests and the a posteriori tests, which make training accurate SGS models a difficult task. We study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Xinyi Huang , Sze Chai Leung , H. Jane Bae

We study the numerical errors of large-eddy simulation (LES) in isotropic and wall-bounded turbulence. A direct-numerical-simulation (DNS)-aided LES formulation, where the subgrid-scale (SGS) term of the LES is computed by using filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-05 H. Jane Bae , Adrian Lozano-Duran

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

Large-eddy simulations (LES) and implicit LES (ILES) are wise and affordable alternatives to the unfeasible direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers (Re). However, for systems with few observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 H. D. Nogueira , G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. G. Kosovichev

We investigate the reconstruction of a turbulent flow field in the atmospheric boundary layer from a time series of lidar measurements, using Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) and a 4D-Var data assimilation algorithm. This leads to an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-17 Pieter Bauweraerts , Johan Meyers

This paper studies the large-eddy simulation (LES) of isothermal turbulent channel flows. We investigate zero-equation algebraic models without wall function or wall model: functional models, structural models and mixed models. In addition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-09 Dorian Dupuy , Adrien Toutant , Françoise Bataille

Numerical simulations of atmospheric circulation models are limited by their finite spatial resolution, and so large eddy simulation (LES) is the preferred approach to study these models. In LES a low-pass filter is applied to the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples

We study the error scaling properties of large-eddy simulation (LES) in the outer region of wall-bounded turbulence at moderately high Reynolds numbers. In order to avoid the additional complexity of wall-modeling, we perform LES of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-26 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Hyunji Jane Bae