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Submarine hydrodynamics presents unique challenges in accurately predicting flow separation, wake structure, and resistance due to complex geometry and turbulent behaviour at high Reynolds (Re) numbers. Traditional Reynolds-Averaged…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-07 Noh Zainal Abidin , Frederic Grondin , Pol Muller , Jean-François Sigrist

The effect of grid resolution on large eddy simulation (LES) of wall-bounded turbulent flow is investigated. A channel flow simulation campaign involving systematic variation of the streamwise ($\Delta x$) and spanwise ($\Delta z$) grid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Mattias Liefvendahl

For high-fidelity predictions of turbulent flows in complex practical engineering problems, the Wall-Modeled (WM) Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) has aroused great interest. In the present study, we prove that the conventional Wall-Stress…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Mohammad Taghvaei , Ehsan Amani

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a useful tool for prediction of turbulence in aerodynamic and biomedical applications. The choice of appropriate turbulence models is key to reaching accurate predictions. The present investigation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-13 Fardin Khalili , Peshala P. T. Gamage , Hansen A. Mansy

In this study, we conduct a parametric analysis to evaluate the sensitivities of wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (LES) with respect to subgrid-scale (SGS) models, mesh resolution, wall boundary conditions and mesh anisotropy. While such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-26 Di Zhou , H. Jane Bae

The logarithmic law for the mean velocity in turbulent boundary layers has long provided a valuable and robust reference for comparison with theories, models, and large-eddy simulations (LES) of wall-bounded turbulence. More recently,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-23 Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Michael Wilczek , Charles Meneveau

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

This survey investigates wall modeling in large eddy simulations (LES) using data-driven machine learning (ML) techniques. To this end, we implement three ML wall models in an open-source code and compare their performances with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-23 Aurélien Vadrot , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

The development of a wall model using machine learning methods for the large-eddy simulation (LES) of separated flows is still an unsolved problem. Our approach is to leverage the significance of separated flow data, for which existing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-25 Zhideng Zhou , Xin-lei Zhang , Guo-wei He , Xiaolei Yang

We propose a model for the streamwise velocity variance in wall-bounded turbulent flows. It hypothesizes that the wall-parallel motions of the attached eddies induce internal turbulent boundary layers. A logarithmic variance profile is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-07 Chenning Tong

This paper presents a Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) method for solving the two-equation Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model. The turbulent wall-bounded flow with or without mild flow separation, a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-31 Feng Wang , Zhongguo Sun , Xiangyu Hu

Wall turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and engineering application, yet predicting such turbulence is difficult due to its complexity. High-Reynolds-number turbulence, which includes most practical flows, is particularly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jinyul Hwang , Hyung Jin Sung

We consider linear feedback flow control of the largest scales in an incompressible turbulent channel flow at a friction Reynolds number of Re$_{\tau}$ = 2000. A linear model is formed by linearizing the Navier-Stokes equations about the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-20 Stephan F. Oehler , Simon J. Illingworth

We present a framework for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) with Immersed Boundaries (IBs) to simulate high Reynolds number flows over complex walls. In this approach, which we call Immersed Boundary-Modeled LES (IBMLES), we volume-filter the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Morrison Rickard , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

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

The predictive accuracy of wall-modeled large eddy simulation is studied by systematic simulation campaigns of turbulent channel flow. The effect of wall model, grid resolution and anisotropy, numerical convective scheme and subgrid-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-01 Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Timofey Mukha , Mattias Liefvendahl

This work presents a feature-rich open-source library for wall-modelled large-eddy simulation (WMLES), which is a turbulence modelling approach that reduces the computational cost of traditional (wall-resolved) LES by introducing special…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-01 Timofey Mukha , Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Mattias Liefvendahl

Simulations of turbulent fluid flow around long cylindrical structures are computationally expensive because of the vast range of length scales, requiring simplifications such as dimensional reduction. Current dimensionality reduction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-25 Bernat Font , Gabriel D. Weymouth , Vinh-Tan Nguyen , Owen R. Tutty

A new scaling is derived that yields a Reynolds number independent profile for all components of the Reynolds stress in the near-wall region of wall bounded flows, including channel, pipe and boundary layer flows. The scaling demonstrates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-06 Alexander J. Smits , Marcus Hultmark , Myoungkyu Lee , Sergio Pirozzoli , Xiaohua Wu

The state-of-the-art in wind-farm flow-physics modeling is Large Eddy Simulation (LES) which makes accurate predictions of most relevant physics, but requires extensive computational resources. The next-fidelity model types are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Julia Steiner , Richard P. Dwight , Axelle Viré