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The physical fidelity of turbulence models can benefit from a partial resolution of fluctuations, but doing so often comes with an increase in computational cost. To explore this trade-off in the context of wall-bounded flows, this paper…

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This study aims to enhance the generalizability of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, which are crucial for engineering applications. Classic RANS turbulence models often struggle to predict separated flows…

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In this paper, a turbulence model based on deep neural network is developed for turbulent flow around airfoil at high Reynolds numbers. According to the data got from the Spalart-Allmaras (SA) turbulence model, we build a neural network…

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Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers employing two-equation eddy viscosity models are the industry standard for simulating turbulent flows using the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) formulation. While these methods are…

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This paper presents numerical simulations of a bichromatic wave group propagating and breaking over a fixed breaker bar. The simulations are performed using a newly stabilized Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) two-equation turbulence…

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Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of…

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We parameterize sub-grid scale (SGS) fluxes in sinusoidally forced two-dimensional turbulence on the $\beta$-plane at high Reynolds numbers (Re$\sim$25000) using simple 2-layer Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) having only…

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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

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…

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Models for solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations are popular tools for predicting complex turbulent flows due to their computational affordability and ability to provide or estimate quantities of engineering interest.…

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