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Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations are still the main method to study complex flows in engineering. However, traditional turbulence models cannot accurately predict flow fields with separations. In such situation, machine learning…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang , Zhenhua Xia

Throughout the history of science, physics-based modeling has relied on judiciously approximating observed dynamics as a balance between a few dominant processes. However, this traditional approach is mathematically cumbersome and only…

We consider an inverse flow problem in which the airfoil shape is identified from its wake signature, namely the velocity field in the wake of a target airfoil. This is an ill-posed problem and highly sensitive to the accuracy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhen Zhang , George Em Karniadakis

Understanding turbulence is the key to our comprehension of many natural and technological flow processes. At the heart of this phenomenon lies its intricate multi-scale nature, describing the coupling between different-sized eddies in…

This paper explores Neural Operators to predict turbulent flows, focusing on the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) model. It aims to develop reduced-order/surrogate models for turbulent flow simulations using Machine Learning. Different model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 Fernando Gonzalez , François-Xavier Demoulin , Simon Bernard

Turbulence simulation with classical numerical solvers requires high-resolution grids to accurately resolve dynamics. Here we train learned simulators at low spatial and temporal resolutions to capture turbulent dynamics generated at high…

Despite their well-known limitations, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models are still the workhorse tools for turbulent flow simulations in today's engineering application. For many practical flows, the turbulence models are by far…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 H. Xiao , J. -L. Wu , J. -X. Wang , R. Sun , C. J. Roy

Data-driven emulation of nonlinear dynamics is challenging due to long-range skill decay that often produces physically unrealistic outputs. Recent advances in generative modeling aim to address these issues by providing uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Juan Nathaniel , Pierre Gentine

This study presents a new turbulence model for isothermal compressible flows. The model is derived by combining the Favre averaging and the Conservation-dissipation formalism -- a newly developed thermodynamics theory. The latter provides a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Zhiting Ma , Wen-An Yong , Yi Zhu

In this investigation, a data-driven turbulence closure framework is introduced and deployed for the sub-grid modelling of Kraichnan turbulence. The novelty of the proposed method lies in the fact that snapshots from high-fidelity numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 Romit Maulik , Omer San , Adil Rasheed , Prakash Vedula

With the growing number of wind farms over the last decades and the availability of large datasets, research in wind-farm flow modeling - one of the key components in optimizing the design and operation of wind farms - is shifting towards…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-06 Navid Zehtabiyan-Rezaie , Alexandros Iosifidis , Mahdi Abkar

Turbulence modeling is a classical approach to address the multiscale nature of fluid turbulence. Instead of resolving all scales of motion, which is currently mathematically and numerically intractable, reduced models that capture the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-10 Rui Fang , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Sauro Succi

We test the hypothesis that the microscopic temporal structure of near-field turbulence downstream of a sudden contraction contains geometry-identifiable information pertaining to the shape of the upstream obstruction. We measure a set of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-17 Mukesh Karunanethy , Raghunathan Rengaswamy , Mahesh V Panchagnula

Data-driven turbulence modeling has been considered an effective method for improving the prediction accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. Related studies aimed to solve the discrepancy of traditional turbulence modeling by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-19 Yuhui Yin , Pu Yang , Yufei Zhang , Haixin Chen , Song Fu

A streamwise-constant model is presented to investigate the basic mechanisms responsible for the change in mean flow occuring during pipe flow transition. Using a single forced momentum balance equation, we show that the shape of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jean-Loup Bourguignon , Beverley J. McKeon

White paper: The aim of this work is to apply and analyze machine learning methods for uncertainty quantification of turbulence models. In this work we investigate the classical and data-driven variants of the eigenspace perturbation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-04 Marcel Matha , Karsten Kucharczyk

A modeling paradigm is developed to augment predictive models of turbulence by effectively utilizing limited data generated from physical experiments. The key components of our approach involve inverse modeling to infer the spatial…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Anand Pratap Singh , Shivaji Medida , Karthik Duraisamy

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations using turbulence models are commonly used in engineering design. Of the different turbulence modeling approaches that are available, eddy viscosity based models are the most common for their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-24 Minghan Chu , Weicheng Qian

Turbulent flows have historically presented formidable challenges to predictive computational modeling. Traditional numerical simulations often require vast computational resources, making them infeasible for numerous engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Han Gao , Xu Han , Xiantao Fan , Luning Sun , Li-Ping Liu , Lian Duan , Jian-Xun Wang

In this paper, we train turbulence models based on convolutional neural networks. These learned turbulence models improve under-resolved low resolution solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations at simulation time. Our study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 Björn List , Li-Wei Chen , Nils Thuerey