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The macroscopic forcing method (MFM) of Mani and Park and similar methods for obtaining turbulence closure operators, such as the Green's function-based approach of Hamba, recover reduced solution operators from repeated direct numerical…
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This study aims to quantify how turbulence in a channel flow mixes momentum in the mean sense. We applied the macroscopic forcing method (Mani and Park, Physical Review Fluids, 2021, p.054607) to direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a…
The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations provide a computationally efficient method for solving fluid flow problems in engineering applications. However, the use of closure models to represent turbulence effects can reduce their…
The importance of nonlocality is assessed in modeling mean scalar transport for turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) mixing at different Atwood numbers. Building on the two-dimensional incompressible work of Lavacot et al. (2024, JFM), the…
Despite well-known limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, this methodology remains the most widely used tool for predicting many turbulent flows, due to computational efficiency. Machine learning is a promising…
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A filtered density function (FDF) model based on deep neural network (DNN), termed DNN-FDF, is introduced for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows involving conserved scalar transport. The primary objectives of this study are to…
We propose a novel method to quantify artificial dissipation in large eddy simulation. Here, artificial dissipation is defined as the residual of the discrete turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) equation. This method is applied to turbulent…
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