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This paper addresses the issue of predicting separated flows with Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models, which are essential for many engineering tasks. Traditional RANS models usually struggle with this task, so recent…

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The observation that fast ions stabilize ion-temperature-gradient-driven microturbulence has profound implications for future fusion reactors. It is also important in optimizing the performance of present-day devices. In this work, we…

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While present standard model of cosmology yields no clear prediction for the initial magnetic field strength, efficient dynamo action may compensate for initially weak seed fields via rapid amplification. In particular, the small-scale…

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Stratification can cause turbulence spectra to deviate from Kolmogorov's isotropic -5/3 power-law scaling in the universal equilibrium range at high Reynolds numbers. However, a consensus has not been reached with regard to the exact shape…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-22 Yu Cheng , Qi Li , Stefania Argentini , Chadi Sayde , Pierre Gentine

Turbulence driven zonal flows play an important role in fusion devices since they improve plasma confinement by limiting the level of anomalous transport. Current theories mostly focus on flow excitation but do not self-consistently…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 Niels Guertler , Klaus Hallatschek

Despite their well-known limitations, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are still the workhorse tools for turbulent flow simulations in today's engineering application. For many practical flows, the turbulence models are by far…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 H. Xiao , J. -L. Wu , J. -X. Wang , R. Sun , C. J. Roy

Our analysis of the model [J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 941 (2017) 012008] elaborated for interpreting the initial stage of the fast nonlocal transport events, which exhibit immediate response, in the heat diffusion time scale, of the spatial…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 A. B. Kukushkin , P. A. Sdvizhenskii , A. V. Sokolov , P. V. Minashin

In the linear collisionless limit, a zonal potential perturbation in a toroidal plasma relaxes, in general, to a non-zero residual value. Expressions for the residual value in tokamak and stellarator geometries, and for arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 P. Monreal , I. Calvo , E. Sánchez , F. I. Parra , A. Bustos , A. Könies , R. Kleiber , T. Görler

We present a physics-informed Bayesian neural-network framework to infer neutron-star equations of state from theoretical priors and to propagate the associated uncertainties to stellar observables. Trained on a large and representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 J. D. Baker , C. A. Bertulani , R. V. Lobato

We study the effect of turbulent transport in different magnetic configurations of the Weldenstein 7-X stellarator. In particular, we performed direct numerical simulations with the global gyrokinetic code GENE-3D, modeling the behavior of…

Generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in domains such as text, image, and video synthesis. In this work, we explore the application of generative models to fluid dynamics, specifically for turbulence simulation, where…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Nikolaj T. Mücke , Benjamin Sanderse

All molecular clouds are observed to be turbulent, but the origin, means of sustenance, and evolution of the turbulence remain debated. One possibility is that stellar feedback injects enough energy into the cloud to drive observed motions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Ryan D. Boyden , Eric W. Koch , Erik W. Rosolowsky , Stella S. R. Offner

The integration of interpretability and generalisability in data-driven turbulence modelling remains a fundamental challenge for computational fluid dynamics applications. This study yields a generalisable advancement of the $k$-$\omega$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Mario J. Rincón , Martino Reclari , Xiang I. A. Yang , Mahdi Abkar

This paper presents the first gyrokinetic (GK) simulations of edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulence accelerated by a velocity-space spectral approach in the full-f GK code GENE-X. Building upon the original grid velocity-space…

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Using Legendre transformation, a standard theoretical approach extensively used in classical mechanics as well as thermal dynamics, two-dimensional non-linear auto-oscillators including spin torque nano-oscillators (STNOs) can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Hao-Hsuan Chen , Ching-Ming Lee , Ching-Ray Chang

A linearly unstable, sinusoidal $E \times B$ shear flow is examined in the gyrokinetic framework in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. In the linear regime, it is shown that the eigenmode spectrum is nearly identical to hydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 A. E. Fraser , M. J. Pueschel , P. W. Terry , E. G. Zweibel

A mayor problem that arises in the computation of stellar atmosphere models is the self consistent determination of the temperature distribution via the constraint of energy conservation. The energy balance includes the gains due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-02 Octavio Cardona , Lucio Crivellari , Eduardo Simonneau

We solve a Bayesian inverse Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) problem that assimilates mean flow data by jointly reconstructing the mean flow field and learning its unknown RANS parameters. We devise an algorithm that learns the most…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 A. Kontogiannis , P. Nair , M. Loecher , D. B. Ennis , A. Marsden , M. P. Juniper

Large Eddy Simulations (LES) of gyrokinetic plasma turbulence are investigated as interesting candidates to decrease the computational cost. A dynamic procedure is implemented in the GENE code, allowing for dynamic optimization of the free…

We assess the suitability of Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation using the Spallart-Almaras (SA) turbulence model as a closure in analysing the performance of fluidic Active Flow Control (AFC) applications. In particular, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-31 Navid Monshi Tousi , Josep M. Bergada , Fernando Mellibovsky