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This paper proposes a phenomenological Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) calculation model based on physical constraints. In this model part of the source terms in the e equation was replaced with the deep learning model, using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-28 Shuming Zhang , Haiwang Li , Ruquan You , Tinglin Kong , Zhi Tao

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

In particle-laden turbulent wall flows, lift forces can influence the near-wall turbulence. This has been recently observed in particle-resolved simulations, which, however, are too expensive to be used in upscaled models. Instead,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-29 Wei Gao , Pengyu Shi , Matteo Parsani , Pedro Costa

Learning symbolic turbulence models from indirect observation data is of significant interest as it not only improves the accuracy of posterior prediction but also provides explicit model formulations with good interpretability. However, it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-12 Chutian Wu , Xin-Lei Zhang , Duo Xu , Guowei He

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

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

This paper extends the resolvent formulation proposed by McKeon & Sharma (2010) to consider turbulence-compliant wall interactions. Under this formulation, the turbulent velocity field is expressed as a linear superposition of propagating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-09 M. Luhar , A. S. Sharma , B. J. McKeon

Estimation of near-wall turbulence in channel flow from outer observations is investigated using adjoint-variational data assimilation. We first consider fully resolved velocity data, starting at a distance from the wall. By enforcing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Mengze Wang , Tamer A. Zaki

A new Richardson number formulation, Ri_new, is introduced to improve the diagnosis of turbulence in the stratified free atmosphere, particularly near jet stream regions. The formulation is derived from the turbulent kinetic energy budget…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Mohamed Foudad , Miguel A. C. Teixeira , Paul D. Williams , Thorsten Kaluza

Numerical simulations based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) equations are widely used in engineering design and analysis involving turbulent flows. However, RANS simulations are known to be unreliable in many flows of engineering…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 Jinlong Wu , Rui Sun , Sylvain Laizet , Heng Xiao

In this study, ensembles of experimental data are presented and utilized to compare and validate two models used in the simulation of variable density, compressible turbulent mixing. Though models of this kind (Reynolds Averaged Navier…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-07 Benjamin Musci , Britton Olson , Samuel Petter , Gokul Pathikonda , Devesh Ranjan

Liquid metals play a central role in new generation liquid metal cooled nuclear reactors, for which numerical investigations require the use of appropriate thermal turbulence models for low Prandtl number fluids. Given the limitations of…

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

We present a resolvent-based framework for estimating turbulent velocity fluctuations in the wake of a spanwise-periodic NACA0012 airfoil at Mach 0.3, Reynolds number 23,000, and an angle of attack of 6 degrees. Building on the methodology…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-28 Junoh Jung , Aaron Towne

Direct numerical simulations are performed to contrast turbulent boundary layers over a concave wall without and with free-stream turbulence. Adverse pressure gradient near the onset of curvature leads to sharp decrease in skin friction and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jiho You , David A. Buchta , Tamer A. Zaki

Accurate prediction of mixing transition induced by interfacial instabilities is vital for engineering applications, but has remained a great challenge for decades. For engineering practices, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-10-02 Hansong Xie , Mengjuan Xiao , Yousheng Zhang , Yaomin Zhao

A novel machine learning algorithm is presented, serving as a data-driven turbulence modeling tool for Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. This machine learning algorithm, called the Tensor Basis Random Forest (TBRF), is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-20 Mikael L. A. Kaandorp , Richard P. Dwight

The interaction between an incident shock wave and a Mach-6 undisturbed hypersonic laminar boundary layer over a cold wall is addressed using direct numerical simulations (DNS) and wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (WMLES) at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-03 Lin Fu , Michael Karp , Sanjeeb T. Bose , Parviz Moin , Javier Urzay

Magnetorotational instability (MRI)-driven turbulence and dynamo phenomena are analyzed using direct statistical simulations. Our approach begins by developing a unified mean-field model that combines the traditionally decoupled problems of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Tushar Mondal , Pallavi Bhat

Atmospheric turbulence degrades the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication and remote sensing systems by introducing phase and intensity distortions. While a majority of research focuses on mitigating these effects to ensure…