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In typical nature and engineering scenarios, such as supernova explosion and inertial confinement fusion, mixing flows induced by hydrodynamics interfacial instabilities are essentially compressible. Despite their significance, accurate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-23 Hansong Xie , Tengfei Luo , Yaomin Zhao , Yousheng Zhang , Jianchun Wang

The weights of a deep neural network model are optimized in conjunction with the governing flow equations to provide a model for sub-grid-scale stresses in a temporally developing plane turbulent jet at Reynolds number $Re_0=6\,000$. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-23 Jonathan F. MacArt , Justin Sirignano , Jonathan B. Freund

Finding an appropriate turbulence model for a given flow case usually calls for extensive experimentation with both models and numerical solution methods. This work presents the design and implementation of a flexible, programmable software…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-07-21 Mikael Mortensen , Hans Petter Langtangen , Garth N. Wells

Turbulent flows consist of a wide range of interacting scales. Since the scale range increases as some power of the flow Reynolds number, a faithful simulation of the entire scale range is prohibitively expensive at high Reynolds numbers.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-24 Dhawal Buaria , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Data-driven methods for modelling purposes in fluid mechanics are a promising alternative given the continuous increase of both computational power and data-storage capabilities. Highly non-linear flows including turbulence and reaction are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-18 Zacharias M. Nikolaou , Charalambos Chrysostomou , Yuki Minamoto , Luc Vervisch

The volume of fluid (VOF) method is increasingly used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of turbulent two-phase flows. The Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach is an economic and practical way for turbulent VOF…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Wenyuan Fan , Henryk Anglart

The present study investigates the accurate inference of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solutions for the compressible flow over aerofoils in two dimensions with a deep neural network. Our approach yields networks that learn to generate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-17 Li-Wei Chen , Nils Thuerey

This paper presents a neural network-based turbulence modeling approach for transonic flows based on the ensemble Kalman method. The approach adopts a tensor basis neural network for the Reynolds stress representation, with modified inputs…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-12 Yi Liu , Xin-Lei Zhang , Guowei He

By analogy with the kinetic theory of gases, most turbulence modeling strate- gies rely on an eddy viscosity to model the unresolved turbulent fluctuations. How- ever, the ratio of unresolved to resolved scales - very much like a degree of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-24 Marcello Righi

This work proposes a novel methodology for turbulence modeling in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) based on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which embeds the discrete rotational, reflectional and translational symmetries of the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Marius Kurz , Andrea Beck , Benjamin Sanderse

Although an increased availability of computational resources has enabled high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows, the RANS models are still the dominant tools for industrial applications. However, the predictive capabilities of RANS…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-19 Jian-Xun Wang , Jinlong Wu , Julia Ling , Gianluca Iaccarino , Heng Xiao

Fundamental fluid--mechanics studies and many engineering developments are based on tripped cases. Therefore, it is essential for CFD simulations to replicate the same forced transition in spite of the availability of advanced transition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 N. Tabatabaei , G. Fahland , A. Stroh , D. Gatti , B. Frohnapfel , M. Atzori , R. Vinuesa1 , P. Schlatter

This work aims to incorporate basic calibrations of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models as part of machine learning (ML) frameworks. The ML frameworks considered are tensor-basis neural network (TBNN), physics-informed machine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jiaqi J. L. Li , Yuanwei Bin , George P. Huang , Xiang I. A. Yang

Despite the significant breakthrough of neural networks in the last few years, their spreading in the field of computational fluid dynamics is very recent, and many applications remain to explore. In this paper, we explore the drag…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Jonathan Viquerat , Elie Hachem

In this paper, we propose normalizing flows (NF) as a novel probability density function (PDF) turbulence model (NF-PDF model) for the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. We propose to use normalizing flows in two different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-12 Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus A. Adams

Within the context of machine learning-based closure mappings for RANS turbulence modelling, physical realizability is often enforced using ad-hoc postprocessing of the predicted anisotropy tensor. In this study, we address the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-05 Ryley McConkey , Nikhila Kalia , Eugene Yee , Fue-Sang Lien

Amid growing interest in machine learning, numerous data-driven models have recently been developed for Reynolds-averaged turbulence modelling. However, their results generally show that they do not give accurate predictions for test cases…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-20 Anthony Man , Mohammad Jadidi , Amir Keshmiri , Hujun Yin , Yasser Mahmoudi

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) is one of the most cost-efficient approaches to simulate wind-farm-atmosphere interactions. However, the applicability of RANS-based methods is always limited by the accuracy of turbulence closure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Ali Eidi , Reza Ghiassi , Xiang Yang , Mahdi Abkar

When simulating multiscale systems, where some fields cannot be fully prescribed despite their effects on the simulation's accuracy, closure models are needed. This phenomenon is observed in turbulent fluid dynamics, where Large Eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-01 Eduardo Vital , Jean-Marc Gratien , Yassine Ayoun , Thibault Faney , Julien Bohbot

A central obstacle to understanding the route to turbulence in wall-bounded flows is that the flows are composed of complex, highly fluctuating, and strongly nonlinear states. In the case of pipe flow, models have deepened our understanding…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-24 Santiago J. Benavides , Dwight Barkley