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Data-driven methods for improving turbulence modeling in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations have gained significant interest in the computational fluid dynamics community. Modern machine learning algorithms have opened up a…

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Turbulent flow has been extensively studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations since turbulent flow regime is so frequently encountered in both academic and engineering applications. The high-fidelity simulation of the…

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In this paper, a novel zonal machine learning (ML) approach for Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence modelling based on the divide-and-conquer technique is introduced. This approach involves partitioning the flow domain into…

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This work determines the inaccuracy of using Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models in transition to turbulent flow regimes by predicting the model-based discrepancies between RANS and large eddy simulation (LES) models…

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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

Predictive simulation of many complex flows requires moving beyond Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) based models to representations resolving at least some scales of turbulence in at least some regions of the flow. To resolve…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-11 Sigfried Haering , Todd A. Oliver , Robert D. Moser

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

Recent advances in data-driven turbulence modeling have established tensor basis neural networks (TBNN) as a physically grounded framework for Reynolds-stress closure in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. However, their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zelong Yuan , Yuzhu Pearl Li

Turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community, universally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-22 Jian-Xun Wang , Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao

A priori tests of turbulence models for the compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) are performed by using Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) data of zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate turbulent boundary layers. The DNS database…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-17 Sciacovelli L. , Cannici A. , Passiatore D. , Cinnella P

A new approach to turbulence simulation, based on a combination of large-eddy simulation (LES) for the whole flow and an array of non-space-filling quasi-direct numerical simulations (QDNS), which sample the response of near-wall turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-20 Neil D. Sandham , Roderick Johnstone , Christian T. Jacobs

A multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for quantifying model-form uncertainties associated with the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations is presented. Two, high-dimensional, stochastic extensions of the RANS equations are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Prashant Kumar , Martin Schmelzer , Richard P. Dwight

A machine-learned (ML) model is developed to enhance the accuracy of turbulence transport equations of Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) solver and applied for periodic hill test case, which involves complex flow regimes, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Shanti Bhushan , Greg W. Burgreen , Wesley Brewer , Ian D. Dettwiller

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

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-04 Romit Maulik , Himanshu Sharma , Saumil Patel , Bethany Lusch , Elise Jennings

Simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds number is a computationally challenging task relevant to a large number of engineering and scientific applications in diverse fields such as climate science, aerodynamics, and combustion.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jaideep Pathak , Mustafa Mustafa , Karthik Kashinath , Emmanuel Motheau , Thorsten Kurth , Marcus Day

This study aims to enhance the generalizability of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, which are crucial for engineering applications. Classic RANS turbulence models often struggle to predict separated flows…

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

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

Machine-learning (ML) techniques provide a new and encouraging perspective for constructing turbulence models for Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations. In this study, an iterative ML-RANS computational framework is proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Weishuo Liu , Jian Fang , Stefano Rolfo , Charles Moulinec , David R Emerson

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…

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