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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 construct a new subgrid scale (SGS) stress model for representing the small scale effects in large eddy simulation (LES) of incompressible flows. We use the covariance tensor for representing the Reynolds stress and include Clark's model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-14 Rukiye Kara , Mine Caglar

Explicit filters play a pivotal role in the scale separation and numerical stability of advanced Large Eddy Simulation (LES) closures, such as dynamic eddy-viscosity or Approximate Deconvolution (AD) methods. In the present study, it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohammad Bagher Molaei , Ehsan Amani , Morteza Ghorbani

We employ a resolvent-based methodology to estimate velocity and pressure fluctuations within turbulent channel flows at friction Reynolds numbers of approximately 180, 550 and 1000 using measurements of shear stress and pressure at the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Filipe R. Amaral , André V. G. Cavalieri , Eduardo Martini , Peter Jordan , Aaron Towne

In this study, ensembles of experimental data are presented and utilized to compare and validate two models used in the simulation of variable density, compressible turbulent mixing. Though models of this kind (Reynolds Averaged Navier…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-07 Benjamin Musci , Britton Olson , Samuel Petter , Gokul Pathikonda , Devesh Ranjan

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

In the field of Large Eddy Simulation, the Smagorinsky subgrid scale model (in some form) is the most commonly accepted and used subgrid scale model. The purpose of this paper is to address the main weakness of the Smagorinsky model, its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Tommy Kunhung Kim

We propose a new model of turbulence for use in large-eddy simulations (LES). The turbulent force, represented here by the turbulent Lamb vector, is divided in two contributions. The contribution including only subfilter fields is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Philippe Laval , Berengere Dubrulle

We establish and discuss {\em a priori} estimates on subgrid stress and subgrid flux for filtering schemes used in the turbulence modelling method of Large-Eddy Simulation (LES). Our estimates are derived as rigorous consequences of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Gregory L. Eyink

This article proposes a Reynolds number scaling of the required grid points to perform wall-modeled LES of turbulent flows encountering separation off a solid surface. Based on comparisons between the various time scales in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Rahul Agrawal , Sanjeeb Bose , Parviz Moin

This fluid dynamics video shows visualizations of a Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of an over-expanded planar nozzle. This configuration represents the experimental setup of Papamoschou et. al. which found the position of the internal shock to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-17 Britton J. Olson , Sanjiva K. Lele

Wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is widely recognized as a useful method for simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers. Nevertheless, a continual issue in different wall models is the shift of the mean velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Huan-Cong Liu , Chun-Xiao Xu , Wei-Xi Huang

High-order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods offer excellent accuracy for turbulent flow simulations, especially when implemented on GPU-oriented architectures that favor very high polynomial orders. On modern GPUs, high-order polynomial…

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

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

Numerical modeling of turbulent spray combustion provides a promising tool for advanced engine design. In spray flames, the droplet evaporation not only reduces the ambient gas temperature, but also influences flame structure by generating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-03 Dong Wang , Min Zhang , Ruixin Yang , Zhi X. Chen

We present a high-order implicit large eddy simulation (ILES) approach for simulating flows at the nearly incompressible regime. Our methodology based on utilization of a nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretization of the Boltzmann…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-05 Onur Ata , Atakan Aygun , Tim Warburton , Ali Karakus

Non-equilibrium wall turbulence with mean-flow three-dimensionality is ubiquitous in geophysical and engineering flows. Under these conditions, turbulence may experience a counter-intuitive depletion of the turbulent stresses, which has…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-08 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Marco Giometto , George I. Park , Parviz Moin

The present research proposes a new memory-efficient method using diffusion models to inject turbulent inflow conditions into Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for various flow problems. A guided diffusion…

Traditional large eddy simulation is based on Kolmogrov's hypothesis, and done in the inertial range. In inertial range the LES model coefficient is scale-invariant. In many cases, such as computing in the boundary layer, the filter scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-18 Changping Yu