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Data from direct numerical simulations of turbulent flows are commonly used to train neural network-based models as subgrid closures for large-eddy simulations; however, models with low a priori accuracy have been observed to fortuitously…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-02 Mark Benjamin , Gianluca Iaccarino

Ocean models at intermediate resolution (1/4 degree), which partially resolve mesoscale eddies, can be seen as Large eddy simulations (LES) of the primitive equations, in which the effect of unresolved eddies must be parameterized. In this…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Pavel Perezhogin , Andrey Glazunov

The global stratification and circulation of the ocean and their sensitivities to changes in forcing depend crucially on the representation of the mesoscale eddy field. Here, a geometrically informed and energetically constrained…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Julian Mak , James R. Maddison , David P. Marshall , David R. Munday

We present results of implicit large eddy simulation (LES) and different Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models of the MTU 161 low pressure turbine at an exit Reynolds number of 90,000 and exit Mach number of 0.6. The LES results are…

We present an approximate deconvolution (AD) large eddy simulation (LES) model for the two-layer quasigeostrophic equations. We applied the AD-LES model to mid-latitude two-layer square oceanic basins, which are standard prototypes of more…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Omer San , Anne E. Staple , Traian Iliescu

This article addresses the widely overlooked conceptual inconsistency of the large eddy simulation (LES) framework, namely that the commonly used advection term introduces higher wave numbers in the filtered Navier-Stokes equations than…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Max Hausmann , Berend van Wachem

Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-09 Jahrul M Alam , Luke P. J. Fitzpatrick

Approximate Deconvolution (AD) has emerged as a promising closure for Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) in complex multi-physics flows, where the conventional pure Dynamic Eddy-Viscosity (DEV) models experience issues. In this research, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-14 Ehsan Amani , Mohammad Bagher Molaei , Morteza Ghorbani

When simulating multiscale systems, where some fields cannot be fully prescribed despite their effects on the simulation's accuracy, closure models are needed. This phenomenon is observed in turbulent fluid dynamics, where Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Eduardo Vital , Jean-Marc Gratien , Yassine Ayoun , Thibault Faney , Julien Bohbot

Predicting the behavior of turbulent flows using large-eddy simulation requires modeling of the subgrid-scale stress tensor. This tensor can be approximated using mixed models, which combine the dissipative nature of functional models with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-11 L. B. Streher , M. H. Silvis , P. Cifani , R. W. C. P. Verstappen

The work of Ansumali \textit{et al.}\cite{Ansumali} is extended to Two Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in which energy is cascaded to small spatial scales and thus requires subgrid modeling. Applying large eddy simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Christopher Flint , George Vahala

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…

We present a variant of the immersed boundary method integrated with octree meshes for highly efficient and accurate Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of flows around complex geometries. We demonstrate the scalability of the proposed method up…

Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is a very useful tool when simulating turbulent flows if we are only interested in its "larger" scales. One of the possible ways to derive the LES equations is to apply a filter operator to the Navier-Stokes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 José M. Rodríguez , Raquel Taboada-Vázquez

Large-eddy simulation (LES) is a well-established numerical technique, which resolves the most energetic turbulent fluctuations in the planetary boundary layers. Averaging these fluctuations, high-quality profiles of mean values and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor N. Esau , Oyvind Byrkjedal

An optimisation scheme is developed to accurately represent the sub-grid scale forcing of a high dimensional chaotic ocean system. Using a simple parameterisation scheme, the velocity components of a 30km resolution shallow water ocean…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fenwick C. Cooper , Laure Zanna

Physics-based closures such as eddy-viscosity and backscattering models are widely used for large-eddy simulation (LES) of geophysical turbulence for applications including weather and climate prediction. However, these closures have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yifei Guan , Pedram Hassanzadeh

Even though compressible plasma turbulence is encountered in many astrophysical phenomena, its effect is often not well understood. Furthermore, direct numerical simulations are typically not able to reach the extreme parameters of these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-27 P. Grete , D. G. Vlaykov , W. Schmidt , D. R. G. Schleicher

Large eddy simulation (LES) of forced, homogeneous, isotropic, two-dimensional (2D) turbulence in the energy transfer subrange is the subject of this paper. A difficulty specific to this LES and its subgrid scale (SGS) representation is in…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Semion Sukoriansky , Alexei Chekhlov , Boris Galperin , Steven A. Orszag

The spindown of a geostrophically balanced density front in an upper-ocean mixed layer is simulated with a large eddy simulation (LES) model that resolves O(1000) m down to O(1) m scale. Our goal is to examine the interaction between the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Vicky Verma , Hieu T. Pham , Sutanu Sarkar