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Data-driven turbulence modeling is experiencing a surge in interest following algorithmic and hardware developments in the data sciences. We discuss an approach using the differentiable physics paradigm that combines known physics with…

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are still the main method to study complex flows in engineering. However, traditional turbulence models cannot accurately predict flow fields with separations. In such situation, machine learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Zhenhua Xia

This paper extends the resolvent formalism for wall turbulence proposed by McKeon and Sharma(2010) to account for the effect of streamwise-constant riblets. Under the resolvent formulation, the Navier-Stokes equations are interpreted as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-15 Andrew Chavarin , Mitul Luhar

Deep learning (DL)-based Reynolds stress with its capability to leverage values of large data can be used to close Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stoke (RANS) equations. Type I and Type II machine learning (ML) frameworks are studied to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-28 Chih-Wei Chang , Nam T. Dinh

Modeled Reynolds stress is a major source of model-form uncertainties in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. Recently, a physics-informed machine-learning (PIML) approach has been proposed for reconstructing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-23 Jian-Xun Wang , Junji Huang , Lian Duan , Heng Xiao

Turbulence in fluids, gases, and plasmas remains an open problem of both practical and fundamental importance. Its irreducible complexity usually cannot be tackled computationally in a brute-force style. Here, we combine Large Eddy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Robin Greif , Frank Jenko , Nils Thuerey

Classic turbulence models often struggle to accurately predict complex flows. Although data-driven techniques have addressed these shortcomings, most existing research has concentrated on two-dimensional (2D) cases. This study bridges this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Chenyu Wu , Shaoguang Zhang , Yufei Zhang

Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) models represent the workhorse for studying turbulent flows in industrial applications. Such single-point turbulence models have limitations in accounting for the influence of the non-local physics and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-19 K. Duraisamy , Anand A. , G. Iaccarino

Eddy-resolving turbulence simulations require stochastic inflow conditions that accurately replicate the complex, multi-scale structures of turbulence. Traditional recycling-based methods rely on computationally expensive precursor…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-22 Xin-Yang Liu , Meet Hemant Parikh , Xiantao Fan , Pan Du , Qing Wang , Yi-Fan Chen , Jian-Xun Wang

Accurate simulation of turbulent flows remains a challenge due to the high computational cost of direct numerical simulations (DNS) and the limitations of traditional turbulence models. This paper explores a novel approach to augmenting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-17 Jonas Luther , Patrick Jenny

Model-form uncertainties in complex mechanics systems are a major obstacle for predictive simulations. Reducing these uncertainties is critical for stake-holders to make risk-informed decisions based on numerical simulations. For example,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-11 J. -L. Wu , J. -X. Wang , H. Xiao

Learning turbulence models from observation data is of significant interest in discovering a unified model for a broad range of practical flow applications. Either the direct observation of Reynolds stress or the indirect observation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xin-Lei Zhang , Heng Xiao , Xiaodong Luo , Guowei He

A one-dimensional version of the second-order transition model based on the sheared flow amplification by Reynolds stress and turbulence supression by shearing is presented. The model discussed in this paper includes a form of the Reynolds…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ivan Calvo , Benjamin A. Carreras

Aerospace design is increasingly incorporating Design Under Uncertainty based approaches to lead to more robust and reliable optimal designs. These approaches require dependable estimates of uncertainty in simulations for their success. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-02-28 Marcel Matha , Christian Morsbach

This study proposes a newly-developed deep-learning-based method to generate turbulent inflow conditions for spatially-developing turbulent boundary layer (TBL) simulations. A combination of a transformer and a multiscale-enhanced…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-22 Mustafa Z. Yousif , Meng Zhang , Linqi Yu , Ricardo Vinuesa , HeeChang Lim

A machine learning method to predict steady external fluid flows using elliptic input features is introduced. Using data from as few as one high-fidelity simulation, the proposed method produces models generalizable under changes to…

The Bayesian uncertainty quantification technique has become well established in turbulence modeling over the past few years. However, it is computationally expensive to construct a globally accurate surrogate model for Bayesian inference…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-03-16 Fanzhi Zeng , Wei Zhang , Jinping Li , Tianxin Zhang , Chao Yan

Simulating turbulence is critical for many societally important applications in aerospace engineering, environmental science, the energy industry, and biomedicine. Large eddy simulation (LES) has been widely used as an alternative to direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-13 Shengyu Chen , Tianshu Bao , Peyman Givi , Can Zheng , Xiaowei Jia

Data-driven turbulence modeling is a newly emerged research area in thermal hydraulics simulation of nuclear power plant (NPP). The most common CFD method used in NPP thermal hydraulics simulation is Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-04 Yangmo Zhu , Nam Dinh

Fluid dynamics spans phenomena from the Cheerios effect to cosmic evolution and has been called the 'queen mother' of science. Traditional modelling relies on numerical methods, including finite differences, volumes, and elements, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-09 Kwame Agyei-Baah , Muhammad Rizwanur Rahman , E. R. Smith