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In this paper the capabilities of the turbulence-resolving Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow model to predict the suspension of mono-dispersed finite-sized solid particles in a boundary layer flow are investigated. For heavier-than-fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-08 Antoine Mathieu , Julien Chauchat , Cyrille Bonamy , Guillaume Balarac , Tian-Jian Hsu

We present a numerical method for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of compressible two-phase flows. The method is validated for the flow in a micro channel with a step-like restriction. This setup is representative for typical cavitating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-28 S Hickel , M. Mihatsch , S. J. Schmidt

Large eddy simulations (LES) are a powerful tool in understanding processes that are inaccessible by direct simulations due to their complexity, for example, in the highly turbulent regime. However, their accuracy and success depends on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Philipp Grete , Dimitar G Vlaykov , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

Due to the prohibitive cost of resolving all relevant scales, direct numerical simulations of turbulence remain unfeasible for most real-world applications. Consequently, dynamically simplified formulations are needed for coarse-grained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 F. Xavier Trias , Jesús Ruano , Alexey Duben , Andrey Gorobets

We describe and compare two time-periodic flows embedded in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulence in a three-dimensional, periodic domain subject to constant external forcing. One of these flows models the regeneration of large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 Lennaert van Veen , Alberto Vela Martin , Genta Kawahara , Tatsuya Yasuda

One promising decomposition of turbulent dynamics is that into building blocks such as equilibrium and periodic solutions and orbits connecting these. While the numerical approximation of such building blocks is feasible for flows in small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 Lennaert van Veen , Genta Kawahara , Tatsuya Yasuda

We present a framework for Large Eddy Simulations (LES) with Immersed Boundaries (IBs) to simulate high Reynolds number flows over complex walls. In this approach, which we call Immersed Boundary-Modeled LES (IBMLES), we volume-filter the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Morrison Rickard , M. Houssem Kasbaoui

The explicit filtering method for large eddy simulation (LES,) which comprises integration of the governing equations without any added terms for sub-grid-scale modeling, and the application of a low-pass filter to transported fields, is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-06 Joseph Mathew

In this paper we propose a new modeling framework for large eddy simulations (LES) of particle-laden turbulent flows that captures the interaction between the particle and fluid phase on both the resolved and subgrid-scales. Unlike the vast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-26 Max Hausmann , Fabien Evrard , Berend van Wachem

The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach - solving numerically the large scales of a turbulent system and accounting for the small-scale influence through a model - is applied to nonlinear gyrokinetic systems that are driven by a number of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Bañón Navarro , B. Teaca , F. Jenko , G. W. Hammett , T. Happel , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Numerical simulations of atmospheric circulation models are limited by their finite spatial resolution, and so large eddy simulation (LES) is the preferred approach to study these models. In LES a low-pass filter is applied to the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples

A new method for the localization of the regions where small scale turbulent fluctuations are present in hypersonic flows is applied to the large-eddy simulation (LES) of a compressible turbulent jet with an initial Mach number equal to 5.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. Tordella , M. Iovieno , S. Massaglia , A. Mignone

The goal of this paper is twofold: first, it investigates the effect of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulation (AD-LES) of turbulent incompressible flows. Second, it proposes the hyper-differential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-29 Omer San , Anne E. Staples , Traian Iliescu

We develop a numerical method for simulation of incompressible viscous flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core idea of Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Specifically, we utilize the filtering method in LES,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-08 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

In this paper, we apply a specifically designed dissipative spatial filter as sub-grid scale model within the increasingly popular discontinuous Galerkin methods and the closely related flux reconstruction high order methods for large eddy…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 David G Flad , Andrea D Beck , Philipp Guthke

Mesoscale eddies play a significant role in marine energy transport, marine biological environment and marine climate. Due to their huge impact on the ocean, mesoscale eddy detection has become a hot research area in recent years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhenlin Fan , Guoqiang Zhong

In this review, the methodology of large eddy simulations (LES) is introduced and applications in astrophysics are discussed. As theoretical framework, the scale decomposition of the dynamical equations for compressible neutral fluids by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Wolfram Schmidt-Brückner

We report the first high-order eddy-resolving simulation of flow over a marine propeller using a recently developed high-order sliding-mesh method. This method employs the flux reconstruction framework and a new dynamic curved mortar…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-07 Bin Zhang , Chi Ding , Chunlei Liang

Large-eddy simulation developments and validations are presented for an improved simulation of turbulent internal flows. Numerical methods are proposed according to two competing criteria: numerical qualities (precision and spectral…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-01-15 Jérôme Boudet , Joëlle Caro , L. Shao , Emmanuel Lévêque

Measurement techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Velocimety (MRV) and Magnetic Resonance Concentration (MRC) are useful for obtaining 3D time-averaged flow quantities in complex turbulent flows, but cannot measure turbulent correlations or…