Related papers: The Closure Challenge: a benchmark task for machin…
Wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is widely recognized as a useful method for simulation of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers. Nevertheless, a continual issue in different wall models is the shift of the mean velocity…
We propose the viscous Camassa-Holm equations as a closure approximation for the Reynolds-averaged equations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes fluid. This approximation is tested on turbulent channel flows with steady mean. Analytical…
A simplified Lagrangean closure for the Navier-Stokes equation is used to study the production of intermittency in the inertial range of three dimensional turbulence. This is done using localized wavepackets following the fluid rather than…
Data-driven turbulence modeling is experiencing a surge in interest following algorithmic and hardware developments in the data sciences. We discuss an approach using the differentiable physics paradigm that combines known physics with…
A recent Letter by Oberlack et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024502 (2022)] claims to have derived new symmetry-induced solutions of the non-modelled statistical Navier-Stokes equations of turbulent channel flow. A high accuracy match to DNS…
Neural networks have been used to solve different types of large data related problems in many different fields.This project takes a novel approach to solving the Navier-Stokes Equations for turbulence by training a neural network using…
In nature and engineering applications, plunging jet acts as a key process causing interface breaking and generating mixed-phase turbulence. In this paper, high-resolution numerical simulation of water jet plunging into a quiescent pool was…
Turbulence governed by the Navier-Stokes equations shows a tendency to evolve towards a state in which the nonlinearity is diminished. In fully developed turbulence this tendency can be measured by comparing the variance of the nonlinear…
This paper applies Bayesian-optimization-RANS (turbo-RANS) to improve Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence models for a converging-diverging channel, a case with adverse pressure gradients and flow separation. Using Bayesian…
The ultimate goal of a sound theory of turbulence in fluids is to close in a rational way the Reynolds equations, namely to express the time averaged turbulent stress tensor as a function of the time averaged velocity field. This closure…
The representation of buoyancy-driven turbulence in Reynolds-averaged Navier--Stokes (RANS) models remains unresolved, with no widely accepted standard formulation. A key difficulty is the lack of analytical guidance for incorporating…
Machine learning is used to develop closure terms for coarse grained model of two-dimensional turbulent flow directly from the coarse grained data by adding a source term to the Navier-Stokes equations to ensure that the coarse-grained flow…
Use of appropriate initialization to warm-start Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of turbulent flow can facilitate convergence and lead to efficient use of computational resources. In this work, a method to model downstream…
Turbulence plays an important role in astrophysical phenomena, including core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), but current simulations must rely on subgrid models since direct numerical simulation (DNS) is too expensive. Unfortunately, existing…
We consider linear feedback flow control of the largest scales in an incompressible turbulent channel flow at a friction Reynolds number of Re$_{\tau}$ = 2000. A linear model is formed by linearizing the Navier-Stokes equations about the…
Closure models for the turbulent scalar flux are an important source of uncertainty in Reynolds-averaged-Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations of scalar transport. This paper presents an approach to quantify this uncertainty in simulations of…
Wall-cooling effect in hypersonic boundary layers can significantly alter the near-wall turbulence behavior, which is not accurately modeled by traditional RANS turbulence models. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents a…
We compare the predictions of stochastic closure theory (SCT) with experimental measurements of homogeneous turbulence made in the Variable Density Turbulence Tunnel (VDTT) at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in…
The connection between anomalous scaling of structure functions (intermittency) and numerical methods for turbulence simulations is discussed. It is argued that the computational work for direct numerical simulations (DNS) of fully…
Building upon the intrinsic properties of Navier-Stokes dynamics, namely the prevalence of intense vortical structures and the interrelationship between vorticity and strain rate, we propose a simple framework to quantify the extreme events…