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In this study, we have identified certain fundamental limitations of a mixing length parameterization used in a popular turbulent kinetic energy-based subgrid-scale model. Replacing this parameterization with a more physically realistic one…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yi Dai , Sukanta Basu , Björn Maronga , Stephan R de Roode

Recently, stochastic, as opposed to deterministic, parameterizations are being investigated to model the effects of unresolved subgrid scales (SGS) in large eddy simulations (LES) of geophysical flows. We analyse such a stochastic approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jinqiao Duan , Balasubramanya T. Nadiga

Numerical turbulence simulations typically involve parameterizations such as Large Eddy Simulations (LES). Applications to geophysical flows, especially ocean flows, are further complicated by the presence of complex topography and interior…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-05 Anantha Narayanan Suresh Babu , Akhil Sadam , Pierre F. J. Lermusiaux

A unified subgrid-scale (SGS) and wall model for large-eddy simulation (LES) is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks that enables the prediction of the eddy viscosity. The core assumption of the model is that…

In this work we introduce a computational framework for determining optimal closures of the eddy-viscosity type for Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of a broad class of PDE models, such as the Navier-Stokes equation. This problem is cast in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-12 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas

Motivated by the needs of wall modeled Large Eddy Simulation (LES), we introduce fits to numerical solutions of the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations in their simplest near-wall, boundary layer approximation including a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Charles Meneveau

The continuum approach employing porous media models is a robust and efficient solution method in the area of the simulation of fixed-bed reactors. This paper applies the double-averaging methodology to refine the continuum approach,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-11 W. Sadowski , M. Sayyari , F. di Mare , H. Marschall

This study proposes a novel method for developing discretization-consistent closure schemes for implicitly filtered Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Here, the induced filter kernel, and thus the closure terms, are determined by the properties…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-14 Andrea Beck , Marius Kurz

This paper puts forth a new large eddy simulation closure modeling strategy for two-dimensional turbulent geophysical flows. This closure modeling approach utilizes approximate deconvolution, which is based solely on mathematical…

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

The present study is concerned with large-eddy simulations (LES) of supersonic jet flows. The work addresses, in particular, the simulation of a perfectly expanded free jet flow with an exit Mach number of 1.4 and an exit temperature equal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-05 D. F. Abreu , C. Junqueira-Junior , E. T. Dauricio , J. L. F. Azevedo

Turbulence in compressible plasma plays a key role in many areas of astrophysics and engineering. The extreme plasma parameters in these environments, e.g. high Reynolds numbers, supersonic and super-Alfvenic flows, however, make direct…

Based on ideas by Woodward et al., a subgrid scale model that is applicable to highly compressible turbulence is presented. Applying the subgrid scale model in large eddy simulations of forced supersonic turbulence, the bottleneck effect is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-02 Wolfram Schmidt

In the present paper, we apply the framework of volume-filtering for particle-laden flows, to large eddy simulations (LES) of wall-bounded flows leading to a new perspective on wall-modeled LES (WMLES) that we refer to as volume-filtered…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-29 Max Hausmann , Berend van Wachem

A closure model is presented for large-eddy simulation (LES) based on the three-dimensional variational data assimilation algorithm. The approach aims at reconstructing high-fidelity kinetic energy spectra in coarse numerical simulations by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Sagy Ephrati , Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

The impact of anisotropic dynamic models for applications to LES of compressible flows is assessed in the framework of a numerical model based on high order discontinuous finite elements. The projections onto lower dimensional subspaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Antonella Abbà , Luca Bonaventura , Michele Nini , Marco Restelli

The present study gives an overview and emphasizes principal moments of the applications of the turbulence-resolving modeling with large-eddy simulation (LES) numerical technique to planetary boundary layer (PBL) research and climate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-02 Igor Esau

We live in an age in which high-performance computing is transforming the way we do science. Previously intractable problems are now becoming accessible by means of increasingly realistic numerical simulations. One of the most enduring and…

In turbulence research and flow applications, turbulence models like RaNS (Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes) models and LES (Large Eddy Simulation) are used. Both models filter the governing flow equations. Thus a scale separation approach…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christoph Glawe , Heiko Schmidt , Alan R. Kerstein , Rupert Klein

Coarse resolution numerical ocean models must typically include a parameterisation for mesoscale turbulence. A common recipe for such parameterisations is to invoke down-gradient mixing, or diffusion, of some tracer quantity, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julian Mak , James R. Maddison , David P. Marshall

Over the last years, supervised learning (SL) has established itself as the state-of-the-art for data-driven turbulence modeling. In the SL paradigm, models are trained based on a dataset, which is typically computed a priori from a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-23 Marius Kurz , Philipp Offenhäuser , Andrea Beck