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Modeling of turbulent flows is still challenging. One way to deal with the large scale separation due to turbulence is to simulate only the large scales and model the unresolved contributions as done in large-eddy simulation (LES). This…
Predictive simulation of many complex flows requires moving beyond Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based models to representations resolving at least some scales of turbulence in at least some regions of the flow. To resolve…
We present numerical simulation of 2D turbulent flow using a new model for the subgrid scales which are computed using a dynamic equation linking the subgrid scales with the resolved velocity. This equation is not postulated, but derived…
We present results of implicit large eddy simulation (LES) and different Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models of the MTU 161 low pressure turbine at an exit Reynolds number of 90,000 and exit Mach number of 0.6. The LES results are…
Turbulent flows exhibit large intermittent fluctuations from inertial to dissipative scales, characterized by multifractal statistics and breaking the statistical self-similarity. It has recently been proposed that the Navier-Stokes…
The $\alpha$-modeling strategy is followed to derive a new subgrid parameterization of the turbulent stress tensor in large-eddy simulation (LES). The LES-$\alpha$ modeling yields an explicitly filtered subgrid parameterization which…
This work deals with Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of turbulent gravity currents, performed by means of a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) Finite Element method. In particular, a DG-LES approach in which the…
In this paper, we have used renormalized viscosity for performing large eddy simulations (LES) of decaying homogeneous and isotropic turbulence inside a periodic cube on coarse grids ($32^3$, $64^3$ and $128^3$) at initial Taylor Reynolds…
Shallow flows are common in natural and human-made environments. Even for simple rectangular shallow reservoirs, recent laboratory experiments show that the developing flow fields are particularly complex, involving large-scale turbulent…
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…
The study of Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) in turbulent flows continues to be a critical area of research, particularly in understanding the behavior of small-scale turbulence structures and their impact on resolved scales. In this study, we…
We report on recent progress in the physical and numerical modeling of compressible two-phase flows that involve phase transition between the liquid and gaseous state of the fluid. The high-speed dynamics of cavitation bubbles is studied in…
We introduce CaLES, a GPU-accelerated finite-difference solver designed for large-eddy simulations (LES) of incompressible wall-bounded flows in massively parallel environments. Built upon the existing direct numerical simulation (DNS)…
Developing data-driven subgrid-scale (SGS) models for large eddy simulations (LES) has received substantial attention recently. Despite some success, particularly in a priori (offline) tests, challenges have been identified that include…
The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach - solving numerically the large scales of a turbulent system and accounting for the small-scale influence through a model - is applied to nonlinear gyrokinetic systems that are driven by a number of…
The main objective of this work is to develop a unified framework that can be used as a lens to quantitatively assess and augment a wide range of coarse-grained models of turbulence, viz. large eddy simulations (LES), hybrid…
We present a wall model for large-eddy simulation that incorporates surface-roughness effects and is applicable across low- and high-speed flows, for both transitional and fully rough conditions. The model, implemented using an artificial…
FEARLESS (Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large Eddy SimulationS) is a numerical scheme for modelling subgrid-scale turbulence in cosmological adaptive mesh refinement simulations. In this contribution, the main features of this…
This study aims to identify the properties, advantages, and drawbacks of some common (and some less common) sub-grid scale (SGS) models for large eddy simulation of low Mach compressible flows using high order spectral elements. The models…
A practical application of universal wall scalings is near-wall turbulence modeling. In this paper, we exploit temperature's semi-local scaling [Patel, Boersma, and Pecnik, {Scalar statistics in variable property turbulent channel flows},…