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The Navier-Stokes (NS) equations as a turbulence model have been widely applied in lots of fields. The NS equations contain such a fundamental assumption that all small physical/artificial disturbances could be neglected. Is this assumption…

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This study proposes a multiscale convolutional neural network subgrid-scale (MSC-SGS) model for large-eddy simulation (LES). This model incorporates multiscale representations obtained via filtering to capture turbulent vortices…

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Cellular suspensions such as dense bacterial flows exhibit a turbulence-like phase under certain conditions. We study this phenomenon of "active turbulence" statistically by using numerical tools. Following Wensink et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-15 Martin James , Michael Wilczek

In this paper, we propose an approach for simulating wall-bounded incompressible turbulent flows by integrating the technology of random vortex method with the core principles of large-eddy simulations (LES). In particular, we employ the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zihao Guo , Zhongmin Qian

A systematic study of the influence of the viscous effect on both the spectra and the nonlinear fluxes of conserved as well as non conserved quantities in Navier-Stokes turbulence is proposed. This analysis is used to estimate the helicity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Lessinnes , F. Plunian , R. Stepanov , D. Carati

The decay of turbulent and laminar oblique bands in the lower transitional range of plane Couette flow is studied by means of direct numerical simulations of the Navier--Stokes equations. We consider systems that are extended enough for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Manneville

The results of large eddy simulation (LES) using three sub-grid scale models, namely: constant coefficient Smagorinsky, dynamic Smagorinsky, and a dynamic Clark model, for rotating stratified turbulence in the absence of forcing using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-17 Kiran Jadhav , Rahul Agrawal , Abhilash J. Chandy

The simulation of turbulent flows remains a central challenge, as even our most powerful computers cannot resolve the finest scales of motion in many flows of practical interest. As a result, the effects of unresolved scales on large eddies…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 Muhammad Idrees Khan , Sauro Succi , Giacomo Falcucci

The study of Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) in turbulent flows continues to be a critical area of research, particularly in understanding the behavior of small-scale turbulence structures and their impact on resolved scales. In this study, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-23 Mehran Sharifi

Turbulence governed by the Navier-Stokes equations shows a tendency to evolve towards a state in which the nonlinearity is diminished. In fully developed turbulence this tendency can be measured by comparing the variance of the nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-16 Wouter Bos , Robert Rubinstein

We consider the statistical description of steady state fully developed incompressible fluid turbulence at the inertial range of scales in any number of spatial dimensions. We show that turbulence statistics is scale but not conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Yaron Oz

We present a study of the intermittent properties of a shell model of turbulence with unprecedented statistics, about $\sim 10^7$ eddy turn over time, achieved thanks to an implementation on a large-scale parallel GPU factory. This allows…

A new approach to turbulence simulation, based on a combination of large-eddy simulation (LES) for the whole flow and an array of non-space-filling quasi-direct numerical simulations (QDNS), which sample the response of near-wall turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-20 Neil D. Sandham , Roderick Johnstone , Christian T. Jacobs

Equal-time scaling exponents in fully developed turbulence typically exhibit non anomalous scaling in the inverse cascade of two-dimensional (2D) turbulence and anomalous scaling in three dimensions. We demonstrate that multiscaling is not…

Filtering the passive scalar transport equation in the large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent transport gives rise to the closure term corresponding to the unresolved scalar flux. Understanding and respecting the statistical features of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-12 Ali Akhavan-Safaei , Mehdi Samiee , Mohsen Zayernouri

We investigate how the defining statistical features of three-dimensional turbulence respond to systematic reductions of the Fourier-space triadic interaction network. Using direct numerical simulations of both fractally and homogeneously…

We compute solutions of the Lagrangian-Averaged Navier-Stokes alpha-model (LANS) for significantly higher Reynolds numbers (up to Re 8300) than have previously been accomplished. This allows sufficient separation of scales to observe a…

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Turbulent flow remains a challenging subject, despite extensive efforts to find analytical descriptions. Modeling small scales of motion is crucial for saving time and resources in numerical simulations, particularly in industrial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-13 Julia Domingues Lemos , Fabio Pereira dos Santos

Fractal Interpolation has been proposed in the literature as an efficient way to construct closure models for the numerical solution of coarse-grained Navier-Stokes equations. It is based on synthetically generating a scale-invariant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sukanta Basu , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Fernando Porté-Agel

We establish exact inequalities for the structure-function scaling exponents of a passively advected scalar in both the inertial-convective and viscous-convective ranges. These inequalities involve the scaling exponents of the velocity…

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