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Systems comprising a turbulent channel flow overlaying a permeable bed can be found in a variety of industrial and natural applications (e.g. urban planning, fracking, submerged vegetation). One important realization of this system is at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-01 Benjamin H. Sonin

We establish and discuss {\em a priori} estimates on subgrid stress and subgrid flux for filtering schemes used in the turbulence modelling method of Large-Eddy Simulation (LES). Our estimates are derived as rigorous consequences of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Gregory L. Eyink

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-02 Alessio Innocenti , Cristian Marchioli , Sergio Chibbaro

Due to the prohibitive cost of resolving all relevant scales, direct numerical simulations of turbulence remain unfeasible for most real-world applications. Consequently, dynamically simplified formulations are needed for coarse-grained…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-30 F. Xavier Trias , Jesús Ruano , Alexey Duben , Andrey Gorobets

Approximate Deconvolution (AD) has emerged as a promising closure for Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) in complex multi-physics flows, where the conventional pure Dynamic Eddy-Viscosity (DEV) models experience issues. In this research, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-14 Ehsan Amani , Mohammad Bagher Molaei , Morteza Ghorbani

In this paper we employ renormalized viscosity and thermal diffusivity to construct a subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent thermal convection. For LES, we add $\nu_\mathrm{ren} \propto \Pi_u^{1/3}…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-31 Sumit Vashishtha , Mahendra K. Verma

Reliably predictive simulation of complex flows requires a level of model sophistication and robustness exceeding the capabilities of current Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) models. The necessary capability can often be provided by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-20 Sigfried W. Haering , Todd A. Oliver , Robert D. Moser

The Large Eddy Simulation (LES) approach - solving numerically the large scales of a turbulent system and accounting for the small-scale influence through a model - is applied to nonlinear gyrokinetic systems that are driven by a number of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Bañón Navarro , B. Teaca , F. Jenko , G. W. Hammett , T. Happel , the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Recent developments in vortex particle methods for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows are presented. A lightweight, dynamic Large-Eddy Simulation model is tested, featuring a dynamic procedure that relies solely on Lagrangian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Flavio A. C. Martins , Alexander van Zuijlen , Carlos J. Simao Ferreira

The dynamic model for large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent flows requires test filtering the resolved velocity fields in order to determine model coefficients. However, test filtering is costly to perform in large-eddy simulation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stuart Chester , Fabrice Charlette , Charles Meneveau

In this study, we have identified certain fundamental limitations of a mixing length parameterization used in a popular turbulent kinetic energy-based subgrid-scale model. Replacing this parameterization with a more physically realistic one…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yi Dai , Sukanta Basu , Björn Maronga , Stephan R de Roode

Serrations are commonly employed to mitigate the turbulent boundary layer trailing-edge noise. However, significant discrepancies persist between model predictions and experimental observations. In this paper, we show that this results from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-27 Haopeng Tian , Benshuai Lyu

Large-eddy simulations (LES) of a planar turbulent lean hydrogen-air jet flame at Re = 11000 are performed using a tabulated flamelet model based on mixture-averaged diffusion that incorporates detailed transport, including differential and…

The study presents wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (LES) characterizing the flow features of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer over two urban-like roughness geometries: an array of three-dimensional square prisms and the…

Numerical simulations of atmospheric circulation models are limited by their finite spatial resolution, and so large eddy simulation (LES) is the preferred approach to study these models. In LES a low-pass filter is applied to the flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Leila N. Azadani , Anne E. Staples

Large eddy simulation (LES) has become a central technique for simulating turbulent flows in engineering and applied sciences, offering a compromise between accuracy and computational cost by resolving large scale motions and modeling the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-27 Rik Hoekstra , Wouter Edeling

Large-eddy simulation (LES) of a turbulent flow through an array of building-like obstacles is an idealized model to study transport of contaminants in the urban atmospheric boundary layer (UABL). A reasonably accurate LES prediction of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-09 Jahrul M Alam , Luke P. J. Fitzpatrick

This study proposes a multiscale convolutional neural network subgrid-scale (MSC-SGS) model for large-eddy simulation (LES). This model incorporates multiscale representations obtained via filtering to capture turbulent vortices…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-18 Bahrul Jalaali , Kie Okabayashi

One promising decomposition of turbulent dynamics is that into building blocks such as equilibrium and periodic solutions and orbits connecting these. While the numerical approximation of such building blocks is feasible for flows in small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-14 Lennaert van Veen , Genta Kawahara , Tatsuya Yasuda

Large-eddy simulations (LES) are widely-used for computing high Reynolds number turbulent flows. Spatial filtering theory for LES is not without its shortcomings, including how to define filtering for wall-bounded flows, commutation errors…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-02 Perry L. Johnson