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The finite element methods (FEM) are important techniques in engineering for solving partial differential equations, but they depend heavily on element shape quality for stability and good performance. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Rebecca Conley , Tristan J. Delaney , Xiangmin Jiao

The study presents wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (LES) characterizing the flow features of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer over two urban-like roughness geometries: an array of three-dimensional square prisms and the…

This study uses high-fidelity simulations (DNS or LES) and experimental datasets to analyse the effect of non-equilibrium streamwise mean pressure gradients (adverse or favourable), including attached and separated flows, on the statistics…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-20 Saurabh Pargal , Junlin Yuan , Stephane Moreau

We present a hybrid spectral element-Fourier spectral method for solving the coupled system of Navier-Stokes and Cahn-Hilliard equations to simulate wall-bounded two-phase flows in a three-dimensional domain which is homogeneous in at least…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. H. Challa , S. Dong , L. D. Zhu

Insights gained from modal analysis are invoked for predictive large-eddy simulation (LES) wall modeling. Specifically, we augment the law of the wall (LoW) by an additional mode based on a one-dimensional proper orthogonal decomposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Christoffer Hansen , Xiang IA Yang , Mahdi Abkar

Approximated numerical techniques, for the solution of the elastic wave scattering problem over semi-infinite domains are reviewed. The approximations involve the representation of the half-space by a boundary condition described in terms…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Nicolás Guarín-Zapata , Juan Gómez , Juan Jaramillo

A spectral element method (SEM) is developed to solve polarized radiative transfer in multidimensional participating medium. The angular discretization is based on the discrete-ordinates approach, and the spatial discretization is conducted…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 J. M. Zhao , L. H. Liu , P. -f. Hsu , J. Y. Tan

We present a novel approach to wall modeling for RANS within the discontinuous Galerkin method. Wall functions are not used to prescribe boundary conditions as usual but they are built into the function space of the numerical method as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-29 Benjamin Krank , Martin Kronbichler , Wolfgang A. Wall

Elliptic interface problems whose solutions are $C^0$ continuous have been well studied over the past two decades. The well-known numerical methods include the strongly stable generalized finite element method (SGFEM) and immersed FEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Champike Attanayake , So-Hsiang Chou , Quanling Deng

In this work, a data-driven wall model for turbulent flows over periodic hills is developed using the feedforward neural network (FNN) and wall-resolved LES (WRLES) data. To develop a wall model applicable to different flow regimes, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Zhideng Zhou , Guowei He , Xiaolei Yang

This work presents a feature-rich open-source library for wall-modelled large-eddy simulation (WMLES), which is a turbulence modelling approach that reduces the computational cost of traditional (wall-resolved) LES by introducing special…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-01 Timofey Mukha , Saleh Rezaeiravesh , Mattias Liefvendahl

We propose a supervised-machine-learning-based wall model for coarse-grid wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES). Our consideration is made on LES of turbulent channel flows with a first grid point set relatively far from the wall…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-18 Naoki Moriya , Kai Fukami , Yusuke Nabae , Masaki Morimoto , Taichi Nakamura , Koji Fukagata

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 introduce a wall model (WM) for large-eddy simulation (LES) applicable to rough surfaces with Gaussian and non-Gaussian distributions for both transitionally and fully rough regimes. The model is applicable to arbitrary complex…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-19 Rong Ma , Adrian Lozano-Duran

Finite element method (FEM) modeling of the volumetric expansion phenomenon associated with the accumulation of irradiation was performed on rocks in a concrete for nuclear power plant. The FEM mesh of sandstone, tuff, and granite was…

We introduce a \textit{non-modal} analysis technique that characterizes the diffusion properties of spectral element methods for linear convection-diffusion systems. While strictly speaking only valid for linear problems, the analysis is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Pablo Fernandez , Rodrigo Moura , Gianmarco Mengaldo , Jaime Peraire

Spectral element methods (SEM), which are extensions of finite element methods (FEM), are important emerging techniques for solving partial differential equations in physics and engineering. SEM can potentially deliver better accuracy due…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Jacob Jones , Rebecca Conley , Xiangmin Jiao

Flow behavior of a single-component yield stress fluid is addressed on the hydrodynamic level. A basic ingredient of the model is a coupling between fluctuations of density and velocity gradient via a Herschel-Bulkley-type constitutive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-07 Markus Gross , Fathollah Varnik

We consider the scattering of acoustic waves emitted by an active source above a plane turbulent shear layer. The layer is modeled by a moving random medium with small spatial and temporal fluctuations of its mean velocity, and constant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-19 Josselin Garnier , Etienne Gay , Éric Savin

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Mohammad Taghvaei , Ehsan Amani