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When a chordwise Reynolds number (Re) falls below about $10^5$ the performance of wings and aerodynamic sections become sensitive to viscous phenomena, including boundary layer separation and possible reattachment. Here, detailed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-21 Charles Klewicki , Bjoern F. Klose , Gustaaf B. Jacobs , Geoffrey R. Spedding

We perform direct numerical simulations of laminar separated flows over finite-aspect-ratio swept wings at a chord-base Reynolds number of $Re = 400$ to reveal a variety of wake structures generated for a range of aspect ratios…

A hybrid RANS/LES framework is developed based on a recently proposed Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (IDDES) model combined with a variant of recycling and rescaling method of generating inflow turbulence. This framework was…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-06 Sunil K. Arolla

We propose an enhanced wall-boundary treatment for the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), designed for high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows on adaptively refined Cartesian grids. The method improves the slip-velocity bounce-back scheme by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jorge Ponsin , Carlos Lozano

We conducted WMLES to examine the performance of a simple and widely used ODE-based equilibrium wall model in a spatially-developing 3D TBL inside a bent square duct (Schwarz and Bradshaw 1994) and 3D separated flows behind a skewed bump…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-07 Minjeong Cho , George I. Park , Adrián Lozano-Durán , Parviz Moin

This work examines the flow separation and the resulting pressure distortions at the exit plane of a serpentine diffuser operating at both subsonic and transonic conditions. Wallmodeled large-eddy simulations (WMLES) using the charLES flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-19 Rahul Agrawal , Chad Winkler , Sanjeeb Bose , Parviz Moin

In this work, a data-driven wall model for turbulent flows over periodic hills is developed using the feedforward neural network (FNN) and wall-resolved LES (WRLES) data. To develop a wall model applicable to different flow regimes, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-10 Zhideng Zhou , Guowei He , Xiaolei Yang

A wall-resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) of the fluid flow around a 30P30N airfoil is conducted at a Reynolds number of Rec=750,000 and an angle of attack (AoA) of 9 degrees. The simulation results are validated against experimental data…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-11 Ricard Montalà , Benet Eiximeno , Arnau Miró , Oriol Lehmkuhl , Ivette Rodriguez

Flow and heat transfer in a compressor rotating disc cavity with axial throughflow is investigated using wall-modelled large-eddy simulations (WMLES). These are compared to measurements from recently published experiments and used to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ruonan Wang , John W. Chew , Feng Gao , Olaf Marxen

This work determines the inaccuracy of using Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) turbulence models in transition to turbulent flow regimes by predicting the model-based discrepancies between RANS and large eddy simulation (LES) models…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-21 Mustafa Usta , Ali Tosyali

This paper presents numerical simulations of a bichromatic wave group propagating and breaking over a fixed breaker bar. The simulations are performed using a newly stabilized Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) two-equation turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-29 B. E. Larsen , D. A. van der A. , J. van der Zanden , G. Ruessink , D. R. Fuhrman

The turbulent flow over monochromatic waves of moderate steepness is studied by means of wall resolved LES, and cover a range of wave ages and Reynolds numbers. We compute the Fourier modes of the flow and analyse the momentum balance for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Espen Åkervik , Magnus Vartdal

Turbulent mixing layers over cavities can couple with acoustic waves and lead to undesired oscillations. To understand the nonlinear aspects of this phenomenon, a turbulent mixing layer over a deep cavity at Reynolds number 150 000 is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-04 Edouard Boujo , Michael Bauerheim , Nicolas Noiray

This study focuses on the numerical simulation of high Reynolds number separated flows and proposes a data-driven approach to improve the predictive capability of the SA turbulence model. First, data assimilation was performed on two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-13 Xuxiang Sun , Xianglin Shan , Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang

Spatially developing round jet flows are fundamental to numerous engineering applications. This letter applies the wave-particle turbulence simulation (WPTS) method, a recently developed multiscale approach, to simulate a spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Accurately capturing the dynamic forces acting on rotors as well as their wake effects presents a significant challenge for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) due to high Reynolds numbers and a large range of spatio-temporal scales. The…

The transitional boundary layer flow over a flat plate is investigated. The boundary layer flow is known to develop unstable Tollmien-Schlichting waves above a critical value of the Reynolds number. However, it is also known that this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-15 Damien Biau

This article proposes a Reynolds number scaling of the required grid points to perform wall-modeled LES of turbulent flows encountering separation off a solid surface. Based on comparisons between the various time scales in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Rahul Agrawal , Sanjeeb Bose , Parviz Moin

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-17 Pieter Bauweraerts , Johan Meyers

The predictive accuracy of wall-modelled LES is influenced by a combination of the subgrid model, the wall model, the numerical dissipation induced primarily by the convective numerical scheme, and also by the density and topology of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 Timofey Mukha , Rickard E. Bensow , Mattias Liefvendahl