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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,…

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Accurately modeling wind turbine wakes is essential for optimizing wind farm performance but remains a persistent challenge. While the dynamic wake meandering (DWM) model captures unsteady wake behavior, it suffers from near-wake…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Ding Wang , Dachuan Feng , Kangcheng Zhou , Yuntian Chen , Shijun Liao , Shiyi Chen

Traditional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) closures, based on the Boussinesq eddy viscosity hypothesis and calibrated on canonical flows, often yield inaccurate predictions of both mean flow and turbulence statistics. Here, we…

A purely analytical wake model for wind turbines is derived, anchored exclusively in physical interactions between atmospheric turbulence and turbine dynamics, and thus inherently accounting for atmospheric stratification. Unlike empirical…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Emeline Noël , Erwan Jézéquel , Pierre-Antoine Joulin

The recent surge in machine learning augmented turbulence modelling is a promising approach for addressing the limitations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. This work presents the development of the first open-source…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-01 Ryley McConkey , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations are presently one of the most popular models for simulating turbulence. Performing RANS simulation requires additional modeling for the anisotropic Reynolds stress tensor, but traditional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-02 Rui Fang , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Sauro Succi

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

Wind farm design primarily depends on the variability of the wind turbine wake flows to the atmospheric wind conditions, and the interaction between wakes. Physics-based models that capture the wake flow-field with high-fidelity are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Romit Maulik , Stefano Letizia , Giacomo Valerio Iungo

Submarine hydrodynamics presents unique challenges in accurately predicting flow separation, wake structure, and resistance due to complex geometry and turbulent behaviour at high Reynolds (Re) numbers. Traditional Reynolds-Averaged…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-07 Noh Zainal Abidin , Frederic Grondin , Pol Muller , Jean-François Sigrist

The emerging push of the differentiable programming paradigm in scientific computing is conducive to training deep learning turbulence models using indirect observations. This paper demonstrates the viability of this approach and presents…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-13 Carlos A. Michelén Ströfer , Heng Xiao

This work focuses on the validation of the dynamic wake meandering (DWM) model against large eddy simulation (LES). The wake deficit, mean deflection, and meandering under different wind turbine misalignment angles in yaw and tilt, for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-03 Irene Rivera-Arreba , Zhaobin Li , Xiaolei Yang , Erin E. Bachynski-Polić

Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) simulations with turbulence closure models continue to play important roles in industrial flow simulations. However, the commonly used linear eddy viscosity models are intrinsically unable to handle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jin-Long Wu , Heng Xiao , Rui Sun , Qiqi Wang

The present study represents a data-driven turbulent model with Galilean invariance preservation based on machine learning algorithm. The fully connected neural network (FCNN) and tensor basis neural network (TBNN) [Ling et al. (2016)] are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-11 Xuepeng Fu , Shixiao Fu , Chang Liu , Mengmeng Zhang , Qihan Hu

Turbulence is a complex, irregular flow phenomenon ubiquitous in natural processes and engineering applications. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method, owing to its low computational cost, has become the primary approach for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ziqi Ji , Penghao Duan , Gang Du

Data from experiments and direct simulations of turbulence have historically been used to calibrate simple engineering models such as those based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations. In the past few years, with the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-30 Karthik Duraisamy , Gianluca Iaccarino , Heng Xiao

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

Wind turbine wakes are the result of the extraction of kinetic energy from the incoming atmospheric wind exerted from a wind turbine rotor. Therefore, the reduced mean velocity and enhanced turbulence intensity within the wake are affected…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 G. Valerio Iungo , Romit Maulik , S. Ashwin Renganathan , Stefano Letizia

This work proposes a data-driven explicit algebraic stress-based detached-eddy simulation (DES) method. Despite the widespread use of data-driven methods in model development for both Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large-eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Hao-Chen Liu , Zifei Yin , Xin-Lei Zhang , Guowei He

Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) models represent the workhorse for studying turbulent flows in industrial applications. Such single-point turbulence models have limitations in accounting for the influence of the non-local physics and…

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