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The immense computational cost of simulating turbulence has motivated the use of machine learning approaches for super-resolving turbulent flows. A central challenge is ensuring that learned models respect physical symmetries, such as…

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Computational fluid dynamics models based on Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes equations with turbulence closures still play important roles in engineering design and analysis. However, the development of turbulence models has been stagnant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-04 Heng Xiao , Jin-Long Wu , Sylvain Laizet , Lian Duan

In the present paper a new data-driven model is proposed to close and increase accuracy of RANS equations. The divergence of the Reynolds Stress Tensor (RST) is obtained through a Neural Network (NN) whose architecture and input choice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Stefano Berrone , Davide Oberto

Machine learning techniques have been applied to enhance turbulence modeling in recent years. However, the "black box" nature of most machine learning techniques poses significant interpretability challenges in improving turbulence models.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-22 Boqian Zhang , Juanmian Lei

The present study assesses RANS-based turbulence models to simulate isothermal flow in a combustor representing a constituent can combustor of can-annular configuration used in jet engines. Two-equation models (standard $k-\epsilon$,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-25 Aishvarya Kumar , Ram Prakash Bharti

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

We present a data-driven framework for turbulence modeling, applied to flow prediction in the FDA nozzle. In this study, the standard RANS equations have been modified using an implicit-explicit hybrid approach. New variables were…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-02 Hossein Geshani , Mehrdad Raisee Dehkordi , Masoud Shariat Panahi

The integration of interpretability and generalisability in data-driven turbulence modelling remains a fundamental challenge for computational fluid dynamics applications. This study yields a generalisable advancement of the $k$-$\omega$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Mario J. Rincón , Martino Reclari , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

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

Amid growing interest in machine learning, numerous data-driven models have recently been developed for Reynolds-averaged turbulence modelling. However, their results generally show that they do not give accurate predictions for test cases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-20 Anthony Man , Mohammad Jadidi , Amir Keshmiri , Hujun Yin , Yasser Mahmoudi

This proposed work introduces a data-assimilation-assisted approach to train neural networks, aimed at effectively reducing epistemic uncertainty in state estimates of separated flows. This method, referred to as model-consistent training,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-02 Minghan Chu

Despite their well-known limitations, RANS models remain the most commonly employed tool for modeling turbulent flows in engineering practice. RANS models are predicated on the solution of the RANS equations, but these equations involve an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Eric L. Peters , Riccardo Balin , Kenneth E. Jansen , Alireza Doostan , John A. Evans

Fundamental fluid--mechanics studies and many engineering developments are based on tripped cases. Therefore, it is essential for CFD simulations to replicate the same forced transition in spite of the availability of advanced transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 N. Tabatabaei , G. Fahland , A. Stroh , D. Gatti , B. Frohnapfel , M. Atzori , R. Vinuesa1 , P. Schlatter

Large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence in complex geometries and domains is often conducted with high aspect ratio resolution cells of varying shapes and orientations. The effects of such anisotropic resolution are often simplified or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-20 Sigfried Haering , Myoungkyu Lee , Robert D. Moser

Symbolic regression (SR) methods have been extensively investigated to explore explicit algebraic Reynolds stress models (EARSM) for turbulence closure of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. The deduced EARSM can be readily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yu Zhang , Kefeng Zheng , Fei Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Zhenkun Wang

The Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) models are the most common form of model in turbulence simulations. They are used to calculate Reynolds stress tensor and give robust results for engineering flows. But RANS model predictions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Khashayar Nobarani , Seyed Esmaeil Razavi

Data-driven techniques have improved the accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models in fluid dynamics. However, modeling separated flows remains challenging due to their complex physics and sensitivity to local conditions.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Ali Eidi , Tyler Buchanan , Letian Jiang , Richard P. Dwight

The pressure strain correlation plays a critical role in the Reynolds stress transport modelling. Accurate modelling of the pressure strain correlation leads to proper prediction of turbulence stresses and subsequently the other terms of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-02 J P Panda , H V Warrior

Turbulence modeling is a classical approach to address the multiscale nature of fluid turbulence. Instead of resolving all scales of motion, which is currently mathematically and numerically intractable, reduced models that capture the…

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