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Simulations of stochastically forced shear-flow turbulence in a shearing-periodic domain are used to study the spontaneous generation of large-scale flow patterns in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the shear. Based on an…
In $2048^3$ simulation of quantum turbulence within the Gross-Pitaevskii equation we demonstrate that the large scale motions have a classical Kolmogorov-1941 energy spectrum E(k) ~ k^{-5/3}, followed by an energy accumulation with E(k) ~…
In aerodynamic design, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools has long relied on Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and Unsteady RANS (URANS) turbulence models. However, these methods face limitations in predicting…
In this paper we overcome a key problem in an otherwise highly potential approach to study turbulent flows, ODTLES (One-Dimensional Turbulence Large Eddy Simulation). From a methodological point of view, ODTLES is an approach in between…
Past numerical simulations and experiments of turbulence exhibit a hump in the inertial range, called the bottleneck effect. In this paper we show that sufficiently large inertial range (four decades) is required for an effective energy…
Inability of low-resolution ocean models to simulate many important aspects of the large-scale general circulation is a common problem. In the view of physics, the main reason for this failure are the missed dynamical effects of the…
Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent non-Newtonian flows involves two additional closures, namely the Non-Newtonian SubGrid-Scale (NNSGS) stress tensor and filtered viscosity. Here, dynamic closures are proposed for NNSGS, eliminating…
We propose a novel approach to induce anomalous dissipation through advection driven by turbulent fluid flows. Specifically, we establish the existence of a velocity field $v$ satisfying randomly forced Navier-Stokes equations, leading to…
Vesicles and many biological membranes are made of two monolayers of lipid molecules and form closed lipid bilayers. The dynamical behaviour of vesicles is very complex and a variety of forms and shapes appear. Lipid bilayers can be…
The Eulerian-Lagrangian approach based on Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) is one of the most promising and viable numerical tools to study turbulent dispersed flows when the computational cost of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) becomes too…
Jin (Phys. Fluids, vol. 31, 2019, p. 125102) proposed a new turbulence simulation method which shows better performance than other classic turbulence models. It is composed of a small-eddy-dissipation mixing length (SED-ML) model for…
Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale…
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…
We investigate statistics of large-scale structures from large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds numbers $Re_\tau = 2 {\rm k}$ and $200 {\rm k}$. To properly capture the behaviour of large-scale…
Extensive experimental evidence highlight that scalar turbulence exhibits anomalous diffusion and stronger intermittency levels at small scales compared to that in fluid turbulence. This renders the corresponding subgrid-scale dynamics…
In this work we introduce a computational framework for determining optimal closures of the eddy-viscosity type for Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) of a broad class of PDE models, such as the Navier-Stokes equation. This problem is cast in…
Most sub-grid scale (SGS) models employed in LES (large eddy simulation) formulations were originally developed for incompressible, single phase, inert flows and assume transfer of energy based on the classical energy cascade mechanism.…
This study presents a systematic validation and comparative assessment of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) strategies for centrifugal blood pump simulations using the U.S. Food and Drug Administration benchmark model. A scale-resolving…
Classical eddy viscosity models add a viscosity term with turbulent viscosity coefficient developed beginning with the Kolmogorov-Prandtl parameterization. Approximations of unknown accuracy of the unknown mixing lengths and turbulent…
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method will still play a vital role in the following several decade in aerospace engineering. Although RANS models are widely used, empiricism and large discrepancies between models reduce the…