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Estimation of the initial state of turbulent channel flow from limited data is investigated using an adjoint-variational approach. The data are generated from a reference direct numerical simulation (DNS) which is sub-sampled at different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Mengze Wang , Tamer A. Zaki

A Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of the incompressible flow around a rectangular cylinder with chord-to-thickness ratio 5:1 (also known as the BARC benchmark) is presented. The work replicates the first DNS of this kind recently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-04 Alessandro Chiarini , Maurizio Quadrio Politecnico di Milano

At large scales, the Reynolds stress tensor exhibits notable anisotropy, a key feature of all wall-bounded turbulent flows. Yet, how the drivers of this anisotropy evolve with shearing and thermal stratification in the atmospheric surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-04 Ivana Stiperski , Gabriel G. Katul , Elie Bou-Zeid , Marc Calaf

In the present paper a new data-driven model is proposed to close and increase accuracy of RANS equations. The divergence of the Reynolds Stress Tensor (RST) is obtained through a Neural Network (NN) whose architecture and input choice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Stefano Berrone , Davide Oberto

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of turbulent shear flows, with and without rotation, in the context of a simple but physically motivated closure of the equation governing the evolution of the Reynolds stress tensor. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pascale Garaud , Gordon I. Ogilvie

A statistically stationary turbulence with a mean shear gradient is realized in a flow driven by suitable body forces. The flow domain is periodic in downstream and spanwise directions and bounded by stress free surfaces in the normal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joerg Schumacher , Bruno Eckhardt

We present simulations of coherent structures in compressible flows near the transition to turbulence using the Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD) method. The structures we find are remarkably consistent with experimental observations and…

The large structures in the outer layer of turbulent wall flows are of great physical importance, because they contain a substantial fraction of the streamwise kinetic energy and of the Reynolds stresses. Nevertheless, the organization of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-12 Juan C. del Alamo , Javier Jimenez

Shallow flows are common in natural and human-made environments. Even for simple rectangular shallow reservoirs, recent laboratory experiments show that the developing flow fields are particularly complex, involving large-scale turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-13 Daniel Valero , Daniel B. Bung , Sebastien Erpicum , Yann Peltier , Benjamin Dewals

This paper aims to numerically verify the large Reynolds number asymptotic theory of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) flows proposed in the companion paper Deguchi (2019). To avoid any complexity associated with the chaotic nature of turbulence…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kengo Deguchi

Buoyant shear layers are encountered in many engineering and environmental applications and have been studied by researchers in the context of experiments and modeling for decades. Often, these flows have high Reynolds and Richardson…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 Naman Jain , Hieu T. Pham , Xinyi Huang , Sutanu Sarkar , Xiang Yang , Robert Kunz

Anomalous dissipation, the persistence of a finite mean kinetic energy dissipation as the Reynolds number tends to infinity, occurs in flows with sufficiently spatially rough velocity fields. Compressible turbulence adds further anomalous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-09 Georgy Zinchenko , Jörg Schumacher

Recently, clustering of inertial particles in turbulence has been thoroughly analyzed for statistically homogeneous isotropic flows. Phenomenologically, spatial homogeneity of particles configurations is broken by the advection of a range…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Gualtieri , F. Picano , C. M. Casciola

Results of numerical simulations obtained by a staggered finite difference scheme together with an efficient immersed boundary method are presented to understand the effects of the shape of three-dimensional obstacles on the transition of a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-31 Paolo Orlandi , Sergio Pirozzoli , Matteo Bernardini

A model for homogeneous anisotropic incompressible turbulence is proposed. The model generalizes the GISS model of homogeneous isotropic turbulence; the generalization involves the solution of the GISS equations along a set of integration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kristof Petrovay

Turbulent flow has been extensively studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations since turbulent flow regime is so frequently encountered in both academic and engineering applications. The high-fidelity simulation of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Minghan Chu

Rapidly rotating turbulent flow is characterized by the emergence of columnar structures that are representative of quasi-two dimensional behavior of the flow. It is known that when energy is injected into the fluid at an intermediate scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Amrik Sen , Pablo D. Mininni , Duane Rosenberg , Annick pouquet

The no-slip boundary condition results in a velocity shear forming in fluid flow near a solid surface. This shear flow supports the turbulence characteristic of fluid flow near boundaries at Reynolds numbers above $\approx1000$ by making…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-28 Brian F. Farrell , Petros J. Ioannou , Marios-Andreas Nikolaidis

To study the Reynolds stresses which describe turbulent momentum transport from turbulence affected by large-scale shear and rotation. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are used to study turbulent transport under the influences of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 J. E. Snellman , P. J. Käpylä , M. J. Korpi , A. J. Liljeström

In dilute turbulent particle-laden flows, such as atmospheric dispersion of pollutants or virus particles, the dynamics of tracer-like to low inertial particles are significantly altered by the fluctuating motion of the carrier fluid phase.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-19 Josh Williams , Uwe Wolfram , Ali Ozel