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  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,304 Views
16 Pages

27 December 2022

The flow over alternating roughness strips oriented normally to the mean stream is studied using wall-modeled large-eddy simulations (WMLES) and improved delayed detached-eddy simulations (IDDES) (a hybrid method solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,978 Views
20 Pages

7 June 2021

In this paper, advanced wall-modeled large eddy simulation (LES) techniques are used to predict conjugate heat transfer processes in turbulent channel flow. Thereby, the thermal energy transfer process involves an interaction of conduction within a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,421 Views
23 Pages

Toward the Usage of Deep Learning Surrogate Models in Ground Vehicle Aerodynamics

  • Benet Eiximeno,
  • Arnau Miró,
  • Ivette Rodríguez and
  • Oriol Lehmkuhl

27 March 2024

This study introduces a deep learning surrogate model designed to predict the evolution of the mean pressure coefficient on the back face of a Windsor body across a range of yaw angles from 2.5 to 10. Utilizing a variational autoencoder...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,668 Views
24 Pages

15 September 2021

This article represents the second part of a review by De Stefano and Vasilyev (2021) on wavelet-based adaptive methods for modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. Unlike the hierarchical adaptive eddy-capturing approach, described in the first p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,989 Views
12 Pages

10 March 2021

We studied the effect of wall boundary conditions on the statistics in a wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) of turbulent channel flows. Three different forms of the boundary condition based on the mean stress-balance equations were used to su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,628 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2024

Attempts to mitigate the computational cost of fully resolved large-eddy simulation (LES) in the near-wall region include both the hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes/LES (HRL) and wall-modeled LES (WMLES) approaches. This paper presents an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,856 Views
12 Pages

5 July 2021

The Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation (WMLES) methods are commonly accompanied with an underprediction of the skin friction and a deviation of the velocity profile. The widely-used Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulation (IDDES) method is suggeste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,931 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2022

Considering grid requirements of high Reynolds flow, wall-modeled large eddy simulation (WMLES) and detached eddy simulation (DES) have become the main methods to deal with near-wall turbulence. However, the flow separation phenomenon is a challenge....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,067 Views
28 Pages

17 April 2023

This paper addresses one of the major obstacles arising in the high-fidelity scale-resolving simulations of turbulent flows inside ducts with the walls covered by acoustic liners in order to attenuate the sound radiated from the duct. It consists of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,479 Views
29 Pages

28 November 2019

The aim of this work is to propose a new wall model for separated flows which is combined with large eddy simulation (LES) of the flow field in the whole domain. The model is designed to give reasonably good results for engineering applications where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Citations
11,734 Views
15 Pages

An Overview of Hybrid RANS–LES Models Developed for Industrial CFD

  • Florian Menter,
  • Andreas Hüppe,
  • Alexey Matyushenko and
  • Dmitry Kolmogorov

10 March 2021

An overview of scale-resolving simulation (SRS) methods used in ANSYS Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software is provided. The main challenges, especially when computing boundary layers in large eddy simulation (LES) mode, will be discussed. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,063 Views
17 Pages

Calculation of External Vehicle Aerodynamic Noise Based on LES Subgrid Model

  • Xingjun Hu,
  • Peng Guo,
  • Zewei Wang,
  • Jingyu Wang,
  • Mo Wang,
  • Jia Zhu and
  • Dejiu Wu

9 April 2020

A dynamic Smagorinsky–Lilly model (DSLM) subgrid model on the basis of the Smagorinsky–Lilly subgrid model (SLM) was introduced in the OpenFOAM software. The flow field of the vehicle was simulated, and the pressure coefficient and sound...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
833 Views
25 Pages

Modeling of wall-bounded turbulent flows, in particular the hybridization of the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) and large eddy simulation (LES) methods, has faced serious questions for decades. Specifically, there is continuous research of ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,225 Views
22 Pages

23 March 2024

Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS), large eddy simulation (LES), and hybrid RANS-LES, first of all wall-modeled LES (WMLES) and detached eddy simulation (DES) methods, are regularly applied for wall-bounded turbulent flow simulations. Their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,375 Views
29 Pages

10 January 2024

The usual concept of simulation methods for turbulent flows is to impose a certain (partial) flow resolution. This concept becomes problematic away from limit regimes of no or an almost complete flow resolution: discrepancies between the imposed and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,467 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2024

Usually applied simulation methods for turbulent flows as large eddy simulation (LES), wall-modeled LES (WMLES), and detached eddy simulation (DES) face significant challenges: they are characterized by improper resolution variations and essential pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,780 Views
21 Pages

Numerical simulations are crucial for fast and accurate estimations of the flow characteristics in many engineering applications such as atmospheric boundary layers around buildings, external aerodynamics around vehicles, and pollutant dispersion. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,352 Views
15 Pages

3 March 2023

Numerous sources of overtopping and flood events suggest different cross-sectional land characteristics of the river and urban river water systems. Multiple stages of floodplains in compound channels are viable in urban areas to facilitate bank slope...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,820 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2023

The resolution of small near-wall eddies encountered in high-Reynolds number flows using large eddy simulation (LES) requires very fine meshes that may be computationally prohibitive. As a result, the use of wall-modeled LES as an alternative is beco...

  • Review
  • Open Access
93 Citations
11,420 Views
25 Pages

4 January 2019

In future Ultra-High By-Pass Ratio turboengines, the turbomachinery noise (fan and turbine stages mainly) is expected to increase significantly. A review of analytical models and numerical methods to yield both tonal and broadband contributions of su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,565 Views
18 Pages

The unsteady flow characteristics of a supercritical OAT15A airfoil with a shock control bump were numerically studied by a wall-modeled large eddy simulation. The numerical method was first validated by the buffet and nonbuffet cases of the baseline...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,897 Views
16 Pages

Large Eddy Simulation of Compound Open Channel Flows with Floodplain Vegetation

  • Cheng Zeng,
  • Yimo Bai,
  • Jie Zhou,
  • Fei Qiu,
  • Shaowei Ding,
  • Yudie Hu and
  • Lingling Wang

4 December 2022

Floodplain vegetation is of great importance in velocity distribution and turbulent coherent structure within compound open channel flows. As the large eddy simulation (LES) technique can provide detailed instantaneous flow dynamics and coherent turb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,483 Views
26 Pages

4 February 2020

Wall-model large eddy simulations (WMLES) are conducted to investigate the spatial features of large-scale and very-large-scale motions (LSMs and VLSMs) in turbulent boundary flow in different surface roughnesses at a very high Reynolds number, O (10...

  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
28 Pages

Aerodynamic Performance of a Natural Laminar Flow Swept-Back Wing for Low-Speed UAVs Under Take Off/Landing Flight Conditions and Atmospheric Turbulence

  • Nikolaos K. Lampropoulos,
  • Ioannis E. Sarris,
  • Spyridon Antoniou,
  • Odysseas Ziogas,
  • Pericles Panagiotou and
  • Kyros Yakinthos

16 October 2025

The topic of the present study is the aerodynamic performance of a Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) wing for UAVs at low speed. The basis is a thoroughly tested NLF airfoil in the wind tunnel of NASA which is well-customized for light aircrafts. The aim of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,047 Views
19 Pages

Impact of the Sub-Grid Scale Turbulence Model in Aeroacoustic Simulation of Human Voice

  • Martin Lasota,
  • Petr Šidlof,
  • Manfred Kaltenbacher and
  • Stefan Schoder

23 February 2021

In an aeroacoustic simulation of human voice production, the effect of the sub-grid scale (SGS) model on the acoustic spectrum was investigated. In the first step, incompressible airflow in a 3D model of larynx with vocal folds undergoing prescribed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,588 Views
35 Pages

31 January 2025

The current study investigates the performance of implicit Large Eddy Simulation (iLES) incorporating an unstructured third-order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory (WENO) reconstruction method, alongside conventional Large Eddy Simulation (LES) us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,160 Views
21 Pages

Strongly Heated Turbulent Flow in a Channel with Pin Fins

  • Chien-Shing Lee,
  • Tom I. -P. Shih,
  • Kenneth Mark Bryden,
  • Richard P. Dalton and
  • Richard A. Dennis

22 January 2023

Large-eddy simulations (LES) were performed to study the turbulent flow in a channel of height H with a staggered array of pin fins with diameter D = H/2 as a function of heating loads that are relevant to the cooling of turbine blades and vanes. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,344 Views
19 Pages

5 May 2022

Analytical or empirical models of the wall-pressure power spectral density under a turbulent boundary layer are often validated on test cases in an incompressible flow regime. In this work, an analytical model based on the compressible Poisson equati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,611 Views
16 Pages

29 October 2020

Spillways and channel chutes are widely used in hydraulic works. Two kinds of abutment—walls and steps—are usually constructed to dissipate energy; however, they may also cause cavitation at the abutment position. In this study, we used F...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,282 Views
22 Pages

Low-Cost Eddy-Resolving Simulation in the Near-Field of an Annular Swirling Jet for Spray Drying Applications

  • Jairo Andrés Gutiérrez Suárez,
  • Alexánder Gómez Mejía and
  • Carlos Humberto Galeano Urueña

Spray drying is one of many industrial applications that use annular swirling jets. For this particular application, the flow characteristics in the near-field of the jet are fundamental to obtaining high-quality dried products. In this article, an a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,158 Views
26 Pages

Hybrid Lattice-Boltzmann-Potential Flow Simulations of Turbulent Flow around Submerged Structures

  • Christopher M. O’Reilly,
  • Stephan T. Grilli,
  • Christian F. Janßen,
  • Jason M. Dahl and
  • Jeffrey C. Harris

3 November 2022

We report on the development and validation of a 3D hybrid Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM), with Large Eddy Simulation (LES), to simulate the interactions of incompressible turbulent flows with ocean structures. The LBM is based on a perturbation metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
791 Views
21 Pages

9 August 2025

In the present study, a recently developed improved Self-Adaptive Turbulence Eddy Simulation (SATES) turbulence model (marked as SATES-Mixed), is validated for the simulation of complex multiple swirling turbulent flows. The new SATES-Mixed method ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,324 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2024

The Improved Delayed Detached-Eddy Simulation (IDDES) is a modification of the original Detached-Eddy Simulation (DES) design to incorporate Wall Modeled Large Eddy Simulation (WMLES) capabilities and to extend the class of flows suitable for this me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,369 Views
17 Pages

Estimating the Reattachment Length by Realizing a Comparison between URANS k-Omega SST and LES WALE Models on a Symmetric Geometry

  • Daniel Teso-Fz-Betoño,
  • Martin Juica,
  • Koldo Portal-Porras,
  • Unai Fernandez-Gamiz and
  • Ekaitz Zulueta

24 August 2021

In this study, a water reattachment length was calculated by adopting two different models. The first was based on Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) k-omega with Shear Stress Transport (SST); the second was a Large Eddy Simulation (LES...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,332 Views
14 Pages

Effect of an Electrically-Conducting Wall on Transient Magnetohydrodynamic Flow in a Continuous-Casting Mold with an Electromagnetic Brake

  • Zhongqiu Liu,
  • Alexander Vakhrushev,
  • Menghuai Wu,
  • Ebrahim Karimi-Sibaki,
  • Abdellah Kharicha,
  • Andreas Ludwig and
  • Baokuan Li

4 August 2018

Large eddy simulation (LES) of transient magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent flow under a single-ruler electromagnetic brake (EMBr) in a laboratory-scale, continuous-casting mold is presented. The influence of different electrically-conductive bounda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,309 Views
34 Pages

Studying the Wake of a Tidal Turbine with an IBM-LBM Approach Using Realistic Inflow Conditions

  • Mickael Grondeau,
  • Sylvain S. Guillou,
  • Jean Charles Poirier,
  • Philippe Mercier,
  • Emmnuel Poizot and
  • Yann Méar

13 March 2022

The lattice Boltzmann method is used to model a horizontal axis tidal turbine. Because tidal turbines generally operate in highly turbulent flows, a synthetic eddy method is implemented to generate realistic turbulent inflow condition. The approach m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,563 Views
28 Pages

11 July 2019

A hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes/large-eddy simulation (RANS/LES) turbulence model integrated with a transition formulation is developed and tested on a surrogate model problem through a joint experimental and computational fluid dynamic appr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,384 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of the Thermodynamic and Numerical Modeling of LES of Multi-Component Jet Mixing at High Pressure

  • Alexander Begemann,
  • Theresa Trummler,
  • Alexander Doehring,
  • Michael Pfitzner and
  • Markus Klein

22 February 2023

Mixing under high pressure conditions plays a central role in several engineering applications, such as direct-injection engines and liquid rocket engines. Numerical flow simulations have become a complementary tool to study the mixing process under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,433 Views
24 Pages

Large-Eddy Simulation of Airflow and Pollutant Dispersion in a Model Street Canyon Intersection of Dhaka City

  • Sheikh Hassan,
  • Umma Habiba Akter,
  • Preetom Nag,
  • Md. Mamun Molla,
  • Amirul Khan and
  • Md Farhad Hasan

28 June 2022

The atmospheric flow and dispersion of traffic exhaust were numerically studied in this work while considering a model street canyon intersection of a city. The finite volume method (FVM)-based large-eddy simulation (LES) technique in line with ANSYS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,155 Views
15 Pages

23 November 2022

Characterization of unsteady loads is critical for the development of control systems for next-generation air vehicles. Both Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) methods are prohibitively expensive, and existing Reynolds-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,209 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2020

A numerical framework for the aerodynamic characterization of wind turbine airfoils is developed and applied to the miniature wind turbine WiRE-01. The framework is based on a coupling between wall-resolved large eddy simulation (LES) and application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,269 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2016

Pulsatile flow in a 3D model of arterial double stenoses is investigated using a large eddy simulation (LES) technique. The computational domain that has been chosen is a simple channel with a biological-type stenosis formed eccentrically on the top...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,017 Views
20 Pages

Prediction of Wall Heat Fluxes in a Rocket Engine with Conjugate Heat Transfer Based on Large-Eddy Simulation

  • Luc Potier,
  • Florent Duchaine,
  • Bénédicte Cuenot,
  • Didier Saucereau and
  • Julien Pichillou

9 February 2022

Although a lot of research and development has been done to understand and master the major physics involved in cryogenic rocket engines (combustion, feeding systems, heat transfer, stability, efficiency, etc.), the injection system and wall heat tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,753 Views
17 Pages

21 July 2020

In the present work, the three-dimensional heat and fluid flows around staggered pin-fin arrays are predicted using two hybrid RANS/LES models (an improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) model and a stress-blended eddy simulation (SBES) mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
439 Views
24 Pages

13 October 2025

The seepage characteristics and heat transfer efficiency in rough fractures are indispensable for assessing the lifetime and production performance of geothermal reservoirs. In this study, a two-dimensional rough rock fracture model with different se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,893 Views
16 Pages

Aerodynamic Free-Flight Conditions in Wind Tunnel Modelling through Reduced-Order Wall Inserts

  • Narges Tabatabaei,
  • Ramis Örlü,
  • Ricardo Vinuesa and
  • Philipp Schlatter

27 July 2021

Parallel sidewalls are the standard bounding walls in wind tunnels when making a wind tunnel model for free-flight condition. The consequence of confinement in wind tunnel tests, known as wall-interference, is one of the main sources of uncertainty i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,222 Views
30 Pages

The very large eddy simulation (VLES) method was investigated for supersonic reacting flows in the present work. The advantages and characteristics of the VLES model and the widely used improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) method were re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,596 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2025

This study investigates the force and heat transfer characteristics of oblate spheroidal particles in gas–solid two-phase flows near walls, addressing the influence of particle orientation, shape, Reynolds number, and particle–wall distan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,713 Views
10 Pages

1 December 2006

A random flow generation (RFG) algorithm for a previously established large eddy simulation (LES) code is successfully incorporated into a finite element fluid flow solver to generate the required inflow/initial turbulence boundary conditions for the...

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