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Fluid thermodynamics underpins atmospheric dynamics, climate science, industrial applications, and energy systems. However, direct numerical simulations (DNS) of such systems can be computationally prohibitive. To address this, we present a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-11 Luca Menicali , Andrew Grace , David H. Richter , Stefano Castruccio

Recent growing interest in using machine learning for turbulence modelling has led to many proposed data-driven turbulence models in the literature. However, most of these models have not been developed with overcoming non-unique mapping…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-20 Anthony Man , Mohammad Jadidi , Amir Keshmiri , Hujun Yin , Yasser Mahmoudi

Using the Lagrangian transport of momentum, the Reynolds stress can be expressed in terms of basic turbulence parameters. The Reynolds stress gradient represents the lateral transport of stream-wise momentum, balanced by the u2 transport,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-11 T. -W. Lee

Turbulent flows consist of a wide range of interacting scales. Since the scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of the entire scale range is prohibitively expensive at high Reynolds numbers.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-24 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)-based transition modeling is widely used in aerospace applications but suffers inaccuracies due to the Boussinesq turbulent viscosity hypothesis. The eigenspace perturbation method can estimate the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-08 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

The growth of computational resources in the past decades has expanded the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) from the traditional fields of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to a number of new areas. Examples range from the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jian-Xun Wang , Heng Xiao

The weights of a deep neural network model are optimized in conjunction with the governing flow equations to provide a model for sub-grid-scale stresses in a temporally developing plane turbulent jet at Reynolds number $Re_0=6\,000$. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-23 Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano , Jonathan B. Freund

With the ever-increasing use of Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations in mission-critical applications, the quantification of model-form uncertainty in RANS models has attracted attention in the turbulence modeling community.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-28 Heng Xiao , Jian-Xun Wang , Roger G. Ghanem

The transformative impact of machine learning, particularly Deep Learning (DL), on scientific and engineering domains is evident. In the context of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) represent a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-05 Siddharth Raghu , Rajdip Nayek , Vamsi Chalamalla

This work proposes a data-driven explicit algebraic stress-based detached-eddy simulation (DES) method. Despite the widespread use of data-driven methods in model development for both Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large-eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Hao-Chen Liu , Zifei Yin , Xin-Lei Zhang , Guowei He

In this paper, deep learning (DL) methods are evaluated in the context of turbulent flows. Various generative adversarial networks (GANs) are discussed with respect to their suitability for understanding and modeling turbulence. Wasserstein…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-31 Mathis Bode , Michael Gauding , Jens Henrik Göbbert , Baohao Liao , Jenia Jitsev , Heinz Pitsch

Turbulence remains one of the last unresolved problems of classical physics and a major bottleneck to accurate flow prediction in climate, aerospace, and energy systems. Industrial simulations therefore rely on averaged representations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Zhuoran Liu , Haochen Wang , Zhuolin Zhao , Heng Xiao

Generalizability of machine-learning (ML) based turbulence closures to accurately predict unseen practical flows remains an important challenge. At the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) level, NN-based turbulence closure modeling is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-15 Salar Taghizadeh , Freddie Witherden , Yassin Hassan , Sharath Girimaji

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are widely used for turbulent flow simulations due to their computational efficiency, but their accuracy strongly depends on the selected turbulence closure and may vary across the flow domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Piero Zappi , Anna Ivagnes , Niccolò Tonicello , Gianluigi Rozza

The design of film cooling systems relies heavily on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, which solve for mean quantities and model all turbulent scales. Most turbulent heat flux models, which are based on isotropic diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-09 Pedro M. Milani , Julia Ling , John K. Eaton

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Modeling of fluid flows requires corresponding adequate and effective approaches that would account for multiscale nature of the considered physics. Despite the tremendous growth of computational power in the past decades, modeling of fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-24 Arsen S. Iskhakov , Nam T. Dinh

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

Thermal fluid processes are inherently multi-physics and multi-scale, involving mass-momentum-energy transport phenomena. Thermal fluid simulation (TFS) is based on solving conservative equations, for which - except for "first-principle"…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-07 Chih-Wei Chang , Nam T. Dinh