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Turbulence is ubiquitous in engineering and science, yet direct simulation is prohibitively expensive. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations provide savings exceeding ten orders of magnitude but introduce unclosed terms (the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daniel Dehtyriov , Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano

Symbolic regression (SR) methods have been extensively investigated to explore explicit algebraic Reynolds stress models (EARSM) for turbulence closure of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. The deduced EARSM can be readily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yu Zhang , Kefeng Zheng , Fei Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Zhenkun Wang

A data-driven framework for formulation of closures of the Reynolds-Average Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations is presented. In recent years, the scientific community has turned to machine learning techniques to distill a wealth of highly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 S. Beetham , J. Capecelatro

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are presently one of the most popular models for simulating turbulence. Performing RANS simulation requires additional modeling for the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor, but traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Rui Fang , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Sauro Succi

Turbulent problems in industrial applications are predominantly solved using Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models. The accuracy of the RANS models is limited due to closure assumptions that induce uncertainty into the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-20 Atieh Alizadeh Moghaddam , Amir Sadaghiyani

Despite well-known limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, this methodology remains the most widely used tool for predicting many turbulent flows, due to computational efficiency. Machine learning is a promising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ryley McConkey , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering turbulent flow simulations. However, RANS predictions may have large discrepancies due to the uncertainties in modeled Reynolds stresses. Recently, Wang et al.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao , Eric Paterson

The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach remains a backbone for turbulence modeling due to its high cost-effectiveness. Its accuracy is largely based on a reliable Reynolds stress anisotropy tensor closure model. There has been…

Turbulence constitutes an exceptionally complex and irregular flow phenomenon that manifests in liquids, gases, and plasma, making it ubiquitous in both natural processes and engineering applications. Given the relatively modest…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-08 Ziqi Ji , Penghao Duan , Gang Du

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in turbulence applications. They require accurately modeling the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor, for which traditional Reynolds stress closure models only yield…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

Turbulence modeling is a classical approach to address the multiscale nature of fluid turbulence. Instead of resolving all scales of motion, which is currently mathematically and numerically intractable, reduced models that capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-10 Rui Fang , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Sauro Succi

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations require accurate modeling of the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor. Traditional closure models, while sophisticated, often only apply to restricted flow configurations. Researchers have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

Despite a cost-effective option in practical engineering, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are facing the ever-growing demand for more accurate turbulence models. Recently, emerging machine learning techniques are making…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-04 Chao Jiang

In this paper, a novel zonal machine learning (ML) approach for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modelling based on the divide-and-conquer technique is introduced. This approach involves partitioning the flow domain into…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-27 Anthony Man , Mohammad Jadidi , Amir Keshmiri , Hujun Yin , Yasser Mahmoudi

We present a machine learning-based framework for blending data-driven turbulent closures in the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations, aimed at improving their generalizability across diverse flow regimes. Specialized models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Mourad Oulghelou , Soufiane Cherroud , Xavier Merle , Paola Cinnella

Machine learning techniques have been applied to enhance turbulence modeling in recent years. However, the "black box" nature of most machine learning techniques poses significant interpretability challenges in improving turbulence models.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-22 Boqian Zhang , Juanmian Lei

Turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community, universally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jian-Xun Wang , Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao

Despite their well-known limitations, RANS models remain the most commonly employed tool for modeling turbulent flows in engineering practice. RANS models are predicated on the solution of the RANS equations, but these equations involve an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Eric L. Peters , Riccardo Balin , Kenneth E. Jansen , Alireza Doostan , John A. Evans

There exists continuous demand of improved turbulence models for the closure of Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. Machine Learning (ML) offers effective tools for establishing advanced empirical Reynolds stress closures on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-01 Muyuan Liu , Yiren Yang , Hao Chen

Machine-learning (ML) techniques provide a new and encouraging perspective for constructing turbulence models for Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations. In this study, an iterative ML-RANS computational framework is proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Weishuo Liu , Jian Fang , Stefano Rolfo , Charles Moulinec , David R Emerson
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