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The volume of fluid (VOF) method is increasingly used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of turbulent two-phase flows. The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach is an economic and practical way for turbulent VOF…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Wenyuan Fan , Henryk Anglart

This paper presents a machine learning methodology to improve the predictions of traditional RANS turbulence models in channel flows subject to strong variations in their thermophysical properties. The developed formulation contains several…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-28 Rafael Diez Sanhueza , Stephan Smit , Jurriaan Peeters , Rene Pecnik

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…

White paper: The aim of this work is to apply and analyze machine learning methods for uncertainty quantification of turbulence models. In this work we investigate the classical and data-driven variants of the eigenspace perturbation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-04 Marcel Matha , Karsten Kucharczyk

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

Data-driven turbulence modeling studies have reached such a stage that the fundamental framework is basically settled, but several essential issues remain that strongly affect the performance, including accuracy, smoothness, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 Yuhui Yin , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen , Song Fu

Numerical models based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering turbulence modeling. However, the RANS predictions have large model-form uncertainties for many complex flows. Quantification of these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jian-Xun Wang , Rui Sun , Heng Xiao

With the rising of modern data science, data--driven turbulence modeling with the aid of machine learning algorithms is becoming a new promising field. Many approaches are able to achieve better Reynolds stress prediction, with much lower…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-19 Xianwen Guo , Zhenhua Xia , Heng Xiao , Jinlong Wu , Shiyi Chen

Numerical simulations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering design and analysis involving turbulent flows. However, RANS simulations are known to be unreliable in many flows of engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 Jinlong Wu , Rui Sun , Sylvain Laizet , Heng Xiao

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

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are widely used for turbulent flow simulations due to their computational efficiency, but their accuracy strongly depends on the selected turbulence closure and may vary across the flow domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Piero Zappi , Anna Ivagnes , Niccolò Tonicello , Gianluigi Rozza

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shinjan Ghosh , Amit Chakraborty , Georgia Olympia Brikis , Biswadip Dey

In this short note we apply the recently proposed data-driven RANS closure modelling framework of Schmelzer et al. (2020) to fully three-dimensional, high Reynolds number flows: namely wall-mounted cubes and cuboids at Re=40,000, and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-23 Jasper P. Huijing , Richard P. Dwight , Martin Schmelzer

Despite the increasing availability of high-performance computational resources, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations remain the workhorse for the analysis of turbulent flows in real-world applications. Linear eddy viscosity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-27 Leon Riccius , Atul Agrawal , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Traditional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations often struggle to predict separated flows accurately. Recent studies have employed data-driven methods to enhance predictions by modifying baseline equations, such as field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Shaoguang Zhang , Chenyu Wu , Yufei Zhang

Extending gradient-type turbulence closures to turbulent premixed flames is challenging due to the significant influence of combustion heat release. We incorporate a deep neural network (DNN) into Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Priyesh Kakka , Jonathan F. MacArt

We present a new data-driven turbulence model for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations called $\nu_t$-Vector Basis Neural Network. This new model, grounded on the already existing Vector Basis Neural Network, predicts separately the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-27 Davide Oberto

This work presents a review of the current state of research in data-driven turbulence closure modeling. It offers a perspective on the challenges and open issues, but also on the advantages and promises of machine learning methods applied…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Andrea Beck , Marius Kurz

We present a data-driven approach to Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence closure modelling in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows. In these flows the magnetic field interacting with the conductive fluid induces unconventional turbulence…

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a framework to build surrogate models for dynamical systems governed by differential equations. During the learning process, PINNs incorporate a physics-based regularization term within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Shinjan Ghosh , Amit Chakraborty , Georgia Olympia Brikis , Biswadip Dey