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Explicit filtering in large eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent barotropic flow on the sphere in spectral space is studied and compared to implicit filtering. Here, a smooth filter is applied to the nondivergent barotropic vorticity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-08 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples

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

A deep learning (DL) closure model for large-eddy simulation (LES) is developed and evaluated for incompressible flows around a rectangular cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers. Near-wall flow simulation remains a central challenge in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Justin Sirignano , Jonathan F. MacArt

An in-house large eddy simulation tool is developed in order to reproduce high fidelity results of compressible jet flows. The large eddy simulation formulation is written using the finite difference approach, with an explicit time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-04 Carlos Junqueira-Junior , Joao Luiz F. Azevedo , Sami Yamouni , William Wolf

Current design constraints have encouraged the studies of aeroacoustics fields around compressible jet flows. The present work addresses the numerical study of subgrid scale modeling for unsteady turbulent jet flows as a preliminary step…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-03 Carlos Junqueira-Junior , Sami Yamouni , Joao Luiz F. Azevedo , William Wolf

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

Wall-bounded turbulence is relevant for many engineering and natural science applications, yet there are still aspects of its underlying physics that are not fully understood, particularly at high Reynolds numbers. In this study, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-04 Himani Garg , Lei Wang , Martin Andersson , Christer Fureby

In this paper we propose and test the validity of simple and easy-to-implement algorithms within the immersed boundary framework geared towards large scale simulations involving thousands of deformable bodies in highly turbulent flows.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Vamsi Spandan , Detlef Lohse , Marco D. de Tullio , Roberto Verzicco

In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

In turbulence research and flow applications, turbulence models like RaNS (Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes) models and LES (Large Eddy Simulation) are used. Both models filter the governing flow equations. Thus a scale separation approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christoph Glawe , Heiko Schmidt , Alan R. Kerstein , Rupert Klein

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

A stochastic approach based on generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) is used to quantify the error in Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) of a spatially-evolving mixing layer flow and its sensitivity to different simulation parameters, viz. the grid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-27 Marcello Meldi , Maria Vittoria Salvetti , Pierre Sagaut

This study presents a systematic validation and comparative assessment of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) strategies for centrifugal blood pump simulations using the U.S. Food and Drug Administration benchmark model. A scale-resolving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-20 Xuanming Huang , Chi Ding , Yujie Sun , Shidi Huang , Andrea Cioncolini , Damiano Padovani , Ju Liu

The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…

In this paper, we propose an approach for simulating wall-bounded incompressible turbulent flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core principles of large-eddy simulations (LES). In particular, we employ the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

Large eddy simulation (LES) has become the de-facto computational tool for modeling complex reacting flows, especially in gas turbine applications. However, readily usable general-purpose LES codes for complex geometries are typically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Malik Hassanaly , Heeseok Koo , Christopher Lietz , Shao Teng Chong , Venkat Raman

We describe and compare two time-periodic flows embedded in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulence in a three-dimensional, periodic domain subject to constant external forcing. One of these flows models the regeneration of large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Lennaert van Veen , Alberto Vela Martin , Genta Kawahara , Tatsuya Yasuda

Accurately capturing the dynamic forces acting on rotors as well as their wake effects presents a significant challenge for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) due to high Reynolds numbers and a large range of spatio-temporal scales. The…

Systems comprising a turbulent channel flow overlaying a permeable bed can be found in a variety of industrial and natural applications (e.g. urban planning, fracking, submerged vegetation). One important realization of this system is at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-01 Benjamin H. Sonin

High Reynolds Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence is fully described within the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, which are notoriously difficult to solve numerically. Engineers, interested primarily in describing turbulence at a reduced range of…