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Motivated by the need to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of turbulence in wall-bounded flows, we study wavenumber-frequency spectra of the streamwise velocity component based on large-eddy simulation (LES) data. The LES data are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Michael Wilczek , Richard J. A. M. Stevens , Charles Meneveau

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-14 Stefan Hickel

Large eddy simulations and three-dimensional proper orthogonal decomposition were used to study the interaction between a large stationary and moving bluff body and a high Reynolds number stably-stratified turbulent boundary layer. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-23 John S. Haywood , Adrian Sescu

We investigate the physical role of various scale-similarity models in the stabilized mixed model [K. Abe, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 39, 42 (2013); M. Inagaki and K. Abe, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, 64, 137 (2017)] and evaluate their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kazuhiro Inagaki , Hiromichi Kobayashi

A closure model is presented for large-eddy simulation (LES) based on the three-dimensional variational data assimilation algorithm. The approach aims at reconstructing high-fidelity kinetic energy spectra in coarse numerical simulations by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Sagy Ephrati , Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

The purpose of this work is to investigate the flow around a fixed NACA0012 airfoil profile at different angles of attack using wall-resolved LES. The profile has a chord length of c=0.1 m and is exposed to a flow at a Reynolds number of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-05 Larissa B. Streher

Large-eddy simulations (LES) and implicit LES (ILES) are wise and affordable alternatives to the unfeasible direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers (Re). However, for systems with few observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 H. D. Nogueira , G. Guerrero , P. K. Smolarkiewicz , A. G. Kosovichev

We investigate the performance of wall-modeled LES for external aerodynamics in the NASA Juncture Flow. We characterize the errors in the prediction of mean velocity profiles and pressure coefficient for three different locations over the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-05 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin

Neural networks offer highly expressive turbulence closures, yet their complexity obscures the physical mechanisms they aim to model, and their computational cost can limit their tractability. To address these limitations, we introduce a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-29 Samantha Friess , Aviral Prakash , John A. Evans

Linear stability analysis has proven to be a useful tool in the analysis of dominant coherent structures, such as the von K\'{a}rm\'{a}n vortex street and the global spiral mode associated with the vortex breakdown of swirling jets. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Lothar Rukes , Christian Oliver Paschereit , Kilian Oberleithner

A shear-improved Smagorinsky model is introduced based on recent results concerning shear effects in wall-bounded turbulence by Toschi et al. (2000). The Smagorinsky eddy-viscosity is modified subtracting the magnitude of the mean shear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 E. Leveque , F. Toschi , L. Shao , J. -P. Bertoglio

This work proposes a data-driven explicit algebraic stress-based detached-eddy simulation (DES) method. Despite the widespread use of data-driven methods in model development for both Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large-eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Hao-Chen Liu , Zifei Yin , Xin-Lei Zhang , Guowei He

Turbulent concentric coaxial pipe flows are numerically investigated as canonical problem addressing spanwise curvature effects on heat and momentum transfer that are encountered in various engineering applications. It is demonstrated that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-04 Marten Klein , Pei-Yun Tsai , Heiko Schmidt

We present a framework based on the generalized lattice-Boltzmann equation using multiple relaxation times with forcing term for eddy capturing simulation of wall bounded turbulent flows. Due to its flexibility in using disparate relaxation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kannan N. Premnath , Martin J. Pattison , Sanjoy Banerjee

The equations for LES are formally derived by low-pass filtering the NS equations with the effect of the small scales on the larger ones captured by a SGS model. However, it is known that the LES equations usually employed in practical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 H. Jane Bae , Adrián Lozano-Durán

We study the construction of subgrid-scale models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulent flows. In particular, we aim to consolidate a systematic approach of constructing subgrid-scale models, based on the idea that it is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-30 Maurits H. Silvis , Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Roel Verstappen

Assuming a general constitutive relation for the turbulent stresses in terms of the local large-scale velocity gradient, we constructed a class of subgrid-scale models for large-eddy simulation that are consistent with important physical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-28 Maurits H. Silvis , Roel Verstappen

The inner-outer interaction model (Marusic, Mathis & Hutchins, Science, vol. 329, 2010, 193-196) and the attached-eddy model (Townsend, Cambridge University Press, 1976) are two fundamental models describing the multi-scale turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Cheng Cheng , Lin Fu

In this paper, we propose an approach for simulating wall-bounded incompressible turbulent flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core principles of large-eddy simulations (LES). In particular, we employ the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

Numerical turbulence simulations typically involve parameterizations such as Large Eddy Simulations (LES). Applications to geophysical flows, especially ocean flows, are further complicated by the presence of complex topography and interior…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-05 Anantha Narayanan Suresh Babu , Akhil Sadam , Pierre F. J. Lermusiaux