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We investigate experimentally stratified turbulence forced by waves. Stratified turbulence is present in oceans and it is expected to be dominated by nonlinear interaction of internal gravity waves as described by the Garrett & Munk…

A formulation is developed to assimilate ocean-wave data into the Numerical Flow Analysis (NFA) code. NFA is a Cartesian-based implicit Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) code with Volume of Fluid (VOF) interface capturing. The sequential…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2014-10-03 Douglas G. Dommermuth , Christopher D. Lewis , Vu H. Tran , Miguel A. Valenciano

In this paper we propose the use of a continuous data assimilation algorithm for miscible flow models in a porous medium. In the absence of initial conditions for the model, observed sparse measurements are used to generate an approximation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Hakima Bessaih , Victor Ginting , Bradley McCaskill

We introduce a continuous (downscaling) data assimilation algorithm for the 2D B\'enard convection problem using vorticity or local circulation measurements only. In this algorithm, a nudging term is added to the vorticity equation to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-11 Aseel Farhat , Hans Johnston , Michael S. Jolly , Edriss S. Titi

Data assimilation refers to the process of obtaining an estimate of a system's state using a model for the system's time evolution and a time series of measurements that are possibly noisy and incomplete. However, for practical reasons, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Cornick , Brian Hunt , Edward Ott , Michael F. Schatz

Data assimilation is a central problem in many geophysical applications, such as weather forecasting. It aims to estimate the state of a potentially large system, such as the atmosphere, from sparse observations, supplemented by prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Matthieu Blanke , Ronan Fablet , Marc Lelarge

We present a novel framework for assimilating planar PIV experimental data using a variational approach to enhance the predictions of the Spalart-Allmaras RANS turbulence model. Our method applies three-dimensional constraints to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Uttam Cadambi Padmanaban , Bharathram Ganapathisubramani , Sean Symon

This paper proposes a new data assimilation method for recovering high fidelity turbulent flow field around airfoil at high Reynolds numbers based on experimental data, which is called Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Inversion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-14 Yilang Liu , Weiwei Zhang

In atmospheric and turbulent flow modeling, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is often used to reduce computational cost, while observational data typically originates from the underlying physical system. Motivated by this setting, we study a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Adam Larios , Ali Pakzad , Nicholas White

Many dynamical systems are difficult or impossible to model using high fidelity physics based models. Consequently, researchers are relying more on data driven models to make predictions and forecasts. Based on limited training data,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-09 Max M. Chumley , Firas A. Khasawneh

Synchronization of turbulence in channel flow is investigated using continuous data assimilation. The flow is unknown within a region of the channel. Beyond this region the velocity field is provided, and is directly prescribed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Mengze Wang , Tamer A. Zaki

The accuracy of simulation-based forecasting in chaotic systems is heavily dependent on high-quality estimates of the system state at the time the forecast is initialized. Data assimilation methods are used to infer these initial conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Michael McCabe , Jed Brown

With the success of machine learning (ML) applied to climate reaching further every day, emulators have begun to show promise not only for weather but for multi-year time scales in the atmosphere. Similar work for the ocean remains nascent,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Surya Dheeshjith , Adam Subel , Shubham Gupta , Alistair Adcroft , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Julius Busecke , Laure Zanna

The dynamics of fluctuations in a fast rotating spherical Couette flow experiment in the presence of a strong dipolar magnetic field is investigated in detail, through a thorough analysis of the experimental data as well as a numerical…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-01-22 Denys Schmitt , Philippe Cardin , Patrick La Rizza , Henri-Claude Nataf

The use of data assimilation technique to identify optimal topography is discussed in frames of time-dependent motion governed by non-linear barotropic ocean model. Assimilation of artificially generated data allows to measure the influence…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Eugene Kazantsev

Data-driven methods have demonstrated strong predictive capabilities in fluid mechanics, yet most current applications still focus on simplified configurations, often characterised by statistical stationarity or limited temporal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Miguel M. Valero , Marcello Meldi

Motivated by specific data and accuracy requirements for building numerical databases of turbulent flows, data compression using spatio-temporal sub-sampling and local re-simulation is proposed. Numerical re-simulation experiments for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Zhao Wu , Tamer A. Zaki , Charles Meneveau

Experimental series of stratified gas-liquid two-phase flows had been carried out in a 26 mm i.d. transparent acrylic horizontal pipe. The study was aimed to determine the interfacial wave characteristics of the flow and to develop a high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-20 Hadiyan Yusuf Kuntoro , Akhmad Zidni Hudaya , Okto Dinaryanto , Deendarlianto , Indarto

Micrometeorology, city comfort, land use management and air quality monitoring increasingly become important environmental issues. To serve the needs, meteorology needs to achieve a serious advance in representation and forecast on…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Igor Esau

Ensemble-variational (EnVar) assimilation of wall-pressure measurements in direct numerical simulations of Mach 6 flow over a cone-flare is performed. The experimental data include pressure spectra and intensities from seven wall-mounted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-18 Pierluigi Morra , Brett Tillman , Stuart Laurence , Tamer A. Zaki