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The localized artificial diffusivity (LAD) method is widely regarded as the preferred multi-material regularization scheme for the compact finite difference method, because it is conservative, easy to implement, and generally robust for a…
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…
Unstable equilibrium solutions in a homogeneous shear flow with sinuous symmetry are numerically found in large-eddy simulations (LES) with no kinetic viscosity. The small-scale properties are determined by the mixing length scale $l_S$…
A new method for the localization of the regions where small scale turbulent fluctuations are present in hypersonic flows is applied to the large-eddy simulation (LES) of a compressible turbulent jet with an initial Mach number equal to 5.…
Numerical simulation of viscoelastic flows is challenging because of the hyperbolic nature of viscoelastic constitutive equations. Despite their superior accuracy and efficiency, pseudo-spectral methods require the introduction of…
The two promising methods for capturing high-speed flows are local artificial diffusivity (LAD) and centralised gradient-based reconstruction (C-GBR), the former being computationally economical and the latter being more robust and stable…
Simulations of elastic turbulence, the chaotic flow of highly elastic and inertialess polymer solutions, are plagued by numerical difficulties: The chaotically advected polymer conformation tensor develops extremely large gradients and can…
Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…
In this work, a localized artificial-viscosity/diffusivity method is proposed for accurately capturing discontinuities in compressible flows. There have been numerous efforts to improve the artificial diffusivity formulation in the last two…
Due to the prohibitive cost of resolving all relevant scales, direct numerical simulations of turbulence remain unfeasible for most real-world applications. Consequently, dynamically simplified formulations are needed for coarse-grained…
This is the second part to our companion paper. The novel method to quantify artificial dissipation proposed in Part 1 is further applied in turbulent channel flow at $\mathrm{Re_\tau}=180$ using various subgrid-scale models, with an…
We present a shock capturing method for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows. The proposed method relies on physical mechanisms to resolve and smooth sharp unresolved flow features that may otherwise lead to numerical instability, such…
This paper introduces a new approach to Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) where subgrid-scale (SGS) dissipation is applied proportionally to the degree of local spectral broadening, hence mitigated or deactivated in regions dominated by…
To simulate elastic turbulence, where viscoelasticity dominates, numerical solvers introduce an artificial stress diffusivity term to handle the steep polymer stress gradients that ensue. This has recently been shown [Gupta & Vincenzi, J.…
The need for accurate and fast scale-resolving simulations of fluid flows, where turbulent dispersion is a crucial physical feature, is evident. Large-eddy simulations (LES) are computationally more affordable than direct numerical…
Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of…
Accurately measuring liquid dynamic viscosity across a wide range of shear rates, from the linear-response to shear-thinning regimes, presents significant experimental challenges due to limitations in resolving high shear rates and…
For computational acoustics, schemes need to have low-dispersion and low-dissipation properties in order to capture the amplitude and phase of the wave correctly. To improve the spectral properties of the scheme, the authors have previously…
We investigate the reconstruction of a turbulent flow field in the atmospheric boundary layer from a time series of lidar measurements, using Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) and a 4D-Var data assimilation algorithm. This leads to an…
We present a new diffuse interface model for the dynamics of inextensible vesicles in a viscous fluid. A new feature of this work is the implementation of the local inextensibility condition in the diffuse interface context. Local…