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In this study, realizable algebraic Reynolds stress modeling based on the square root tensor [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{92}, 053010 (2015)] is further developed for extending its applicability to more complex flows. In conventional methods, it…
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Friction drag from a turbulent fluid moving past or inside an object plays a crucial role in domains as diverse as transportation, public utility infrastructure, energy technology, and human health. As a direct measure of the shear-induced…
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The analysis of the Reynolds Stress Transport Equation (RSTE) provides fundamental physical insights that are essential for the development and validation of advanced turbulence models. However, a comprehensive and validated tool for…
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…
Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of two-phase turbulent flows exhibit quantitative differences in particle statistics if compared to Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) which, in the context of the present study, is considered the exact…
In computational fluid dynamics, there is an inevitable trade off between accuracy and computational cost. In this work, a novel multi-fidelity deep generative model is introduced for the surrogate modeling of high-fidelity turbulent flow…
A fundamental problem in the field of turbulent skin-friction drag reduction is to determine the performance of the available control techniques at high values of the Reynolds number $Re$. We consider active, predetermined strategies based…
The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…
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Turbulent flow across an in-line array of tube-banks with transverse and longitudinal pitch PT /D = 2.67, and PL /D = 2.31, has been simulated successfully by Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based on the dynamic Smagorinsky subgrid scale model…
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