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One promising decomposition of turbulent dynamics is that into building blocks such as equilibrium and periodic solutions and orbits connecting these. While the numerical approximation of such building blocks is feasible for flows in small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 Lennaert van Veen , Genta Kawahara , Tatsuya Yasuda

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

The dynamic model for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows requires test filtering the resolved velocity fields in order to determine model coefficients. However, test filtering is costly to perform in large-eddy simulation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stuart Chester , Fabrice Charlette , Charles Meneveau

In atmospheric and turbulent flow modeling, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is often used to reduce computational cost, while observational data typically originates from the underlying physical system. Motivated by this setting, we study a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Adam Larios , Ali Pakzad , Nicholas White

Accurate modeling of ice accretion is important for safe and efficient design of aircraft and wind turbine systems. Heat transfer predictions obtained from fluid flow solvers are used as input in ice accretion codes. In glaze ice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-25 Federico Zabaleta , Brett Bornhoft , Suhas S. Jain , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin

In this paper we propose a new modeling framework for large eddy simulations (LES) of particle-laden turbulent flows that captures the interaction between the particle and fluid phase on both the resolved and subgrid-scales. Unlike the vast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 Max Hausmann , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

While direct numerical simulations (DNS) are the most accurate method for studying turbulence, their large computational cost restricts their use to idealized configurations and to Reynolds numbers well below those found in practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-09 Chang Hsin Chen , Arnab Moitro , Alexei Y. Poludnenko

In this article, we utilize machine learning to dynamically determine if a point on the computational grid requires implicit numerical dissipation for large eddy simulation (LES). The decision making process is learnt through \emph{a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-07 Romit Maulik , Omer San , Jamey D Jacob

A closure model is presented for large-eddy simulation (LES) based on the three-dimensional variational data assimilation algorithm. The approach aims at reconstructing high-fidelity kinetic energy spectra in coarse numerical simulations by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Sagy Ephrati , Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

The simulation of turbulent flows remains a central challenge, as even our most powerful computers cannot resolve the finest scales of motion in many flows of practical interest. As a result, the effects of unresolved scales on large eddies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Idrees Khan , Sauro Succi , Giacomo Falcucci

Large eddy simulations (LES) of a lattice Boltzmann magnetohydrodynamic (LB-MHD) model are performed for the unstable magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz jet instability. This algorithm is an extension of Ansumali et. al. (2004) to MHD in which one…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 Christopher Flint , George Vahala

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

The goal of this paper is twofold: first, it investigates the effect of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulation (AD-LES) of turbulent incompressible flows. Second, it proposes the hyper-differential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-29 Omer San , Anne E. Staples , Traian Iliescu

We investigate turbulence generated by cosmological structure formation by means of large eddy simulations using adaptive mesh refinement. In contrast to the widely used implicit large eddy simulations, which resolve a limited range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 W. Schmidt , A. S. Almgren , H. Braun , J. F. Engels , J. C. Niemeyer , J. Schulz , R. R. Mekuria , A. J. Aspden , J. B. Bell

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

Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of two-phase turbulent flows exhibit quantitative differences in particle statistics if compared to Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) which, in the context of the present study, is considered the exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-05-04 F. Bianco , S. Chibbaro , C. Marchioli , M. V. Salvetti , A. Soldati

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

A population balance model coupled with large eddy simulations (LES) is adapted and applied to study the evolution of oil droplets in a turbulent jet including the effects of droplet breakup. A key unknown in simulating secondary breakup in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-12 Aditya Aiyer , Charles Meneveau

We present a variant of the immersed boundary method integrated with octree meshes for highly efficient and accurate Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of flows around complex geometries. We demonstrate the scalability of the proposed method up…

This study proposes a multiscale convolutional neural network subgrid-scale (MSC-SGS) model for large-eddy simulation (LES). This model incorporates multiscale representations obtained via filtering to capture turbulent vortices…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Bahrul Jalaali , Kie Okabayashi