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This study presents a compact data-driven Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model for wind turbine wake prediction, built as an enhancement of the standard \(k\)-\(\varepsilon\) formulation. Several candidate models were discovered…

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The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in turbulence applications. They require accurately modeling the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor, for which traditional Reynolds stress closure models only yield…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-23 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

Although Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are still the dominant tool for engineering design and analysis applications involving turbulent flows, standard RANS models are known to be unreliable in many flows of engineering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jin-Long Wu , Jian-Xun Wang , Heng Xiao , Julia Ling

We present a data-driven approach to Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes turbulence closure modelling in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows. In these flows the magnetic field interacting with the conductive fluid induces unconventional turbulence…

Turbulence modeling is a critical component in numerical simulations of industrial flows based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, after decades of efforts in the turbulence modeling community, universally…

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Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering turbulent flow simulations. However, RANS predictions may have large discrepancies due to the uncertainties in modeled Reynolds stresses. Recently, Wang et al.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-11 Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao , Eric Paterson

The state-of-the-art in wind-farm flow-physics modeling is Large Eddy Simulation (LES) which makes accurate predictions of most relevant physics, but requires extensive computational resources. The next-fidelity model types are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-19 Julia Steiner , Richard P. Dwight , Axelle Viré

Accurate and generalizable Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models for turbulent flows rely on effective closures, but currently available closures are notoriously unreliable. Kassinos et al. (J. Fluid Mechanics, 428, pp. 213-248,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Aaron Miller , Sahil Kommalapati , Robert Moser , Petros Koumoutsakos

Computational fluid dynamics using the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) remains the most cost-effective approach to study wake flows and power losses in wind farms. The underlying assumptions associated with turbulence closures are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-03 Ali Eidi , Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie , Reza Ghiassi , Xiang Yang , Mahdi Abkar

Deep learning (DL)-based Reynolds stress with its capability to leverage values of large data can be used to close Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stoke (RANS) equations. Type I and Type II machine learning (ML) frameworks are studied to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-28 Chih-Wei Chang , Nam T. Dinh

Solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations (RANS) closed with an eddy viscosity computed through a turbulence model is still the leading approach for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. Unfortunately, universal models with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-18 Marco Castelletti , Maurizio Quadrio

Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are widely used for turbulent flow simulations due to their computational efficiency, but their accuracy strongly depends on the selected turbulence closure and may vary across the flow domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Piero Zappi , Anna Ivagnes , Niccolò Tonicello , Gianluigi Rozza

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations for steady-state assessment of incompressible turbulent flows remain the workhorse for practical computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Consequently, improvements in speed or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-04 Romit Maulik , Himanshu Sharma , Saumil Patel , Bethany Lusch , Elise Jennings

Extending gradient-type turbulence closures to turbulent premixed flames is challenging due to the significant influence of combustion heat release. We incorporate a deep neural network (DNN) into Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Priyesh Kakka , Jonathan F. MacArt

Symbolic regression (SR) methods have been extensively investigated to explore explicit algebraic Reynolds stress models (EARSM) for turbulence closure of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. The deduced EARSM can be readily…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yu Zhang , Kefeng Zheng , Fei Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Zhenkun Wang

Despite the increasing availability of high-performance computational resources, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations remain the workhorse for the analysis of turbulent flows in real-world applications. Linear eddy viscosity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-27 Leon Riccius , Atul Agrawal , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Data-driven methods for improving turbulence modeling in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations have gained significant interest in the computational fluid dynamics community. Modern machine learning algorithms have opened up a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-05 Nicholas Geneva , Nicholas Zabaras

The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations require accurate modeling of the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor. Traditional closure models, while sophisticated, often only apply to restricted flow configurations. Researchers have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas

This paper proposes a phenomenological Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) calculation model based on physical constraints. In this model part of the source terms in the e equation was replaced with the deep learning model, using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-28 Shuming Zhang , Haiwang Li , Ruquan You , Tinglin Kong , Zhi Tao

To fully evaluate a turbulent flow, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is the most accurate method by far and requires considerable computational power and time; not optimum for industry standards. Developing an alternative model, providing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-04 Indrajit Nandi , Saikat Saha , Sabir Subedi , Sumon Saha