A non-hydrostatic code that numerically solves the unsteady, three-dimensional, primitive equations is used. Advanced models such as the dynamic mixed model and the dynamic eddy viscosity model are utilized to represent subgrid processes in the LES approach. A novel near-wall model has been developed so as to increase the Reynolds number of boundary flows to realistically large geophysical valu...

A new technique for generating coarse scale models of highly heterogeneous subsurface formations is developed and applied. The method uses generic global coarse scale simulations to determine the boundary conditions for the local calculation of upscaled properties (permeability or transmissibility). An iteration procedure assures consistency between the local and global calculations. Transport ...

We present two phenonmenological subgrid-scale (SGS) models for large-eddy simulations (LES) of compressible turbulent flows. A nonlinear model and a stretched-vortex model are tested in LES of compressible decaying isotropic turbulence. Results of LES at 32 resolution are compared to corresponding 256 direct numerical simulations (DNS). We use numerical schemes based on compact differences and...

[1] A coarse-scale model governing two-phase viscous dominated flow in heterogeneous porous media is presented. The coarse-scale water transport equation (or saturation equation) is derived from a volume average of the underlying fine-scale saturation equation. A key component of the coarse-scale description is the subgrid model, which appears in the formulation as a nonlinear, nonlocal term in...

We present the large-eddy simulation of the lid-driven cubic cavity flow by the spectral element method (SEM) using three subgrid-scale models. Two spectral filtering techniques suitable for these simulations have been implemented. Numerical results for Reynolds number Re = 12.000 are showing very good agreement with the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) results and relatively good agreement wi...

Abstract The simulated radar reflectivity used by current mesoscale numerical weather prediction models can reflect the grid precipitation but cannot subgrid generated a cumulus parameterization scheme. To solve this problem, study developed new calculation method to obtain corresponding subgrid-scale and grid-scale based on Global/Regional Assimilation Prediction System (GRAPES) model of China...

Large-eddy simulations of the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock are presented and the results are compared with experiments. Several configurations of shocks initially travelling from light (air) to heavy (sulfur hexafluoride, SF6) have been simulated to match previous experiments and good agreement is found in the growth rates of the turbulent mixing zone (TMZ). The stretched-vortex s...

Data from turbulent numerical simulations of the global ocean demonstrate that the dissipation of kinetic energy obeys a nearly log-normal distribution even at large horizontal scales O(10  km). As the horizontal scales of resolved turbulence are larger than the ocean is deep, the Kolmogorov-Yaglom theory for intermittency in 3D homogeneous, isotropic turbulence cannot apply; instead, the down-...

Abstract. We present and analyze a subgrid viscosity Lagrange-Galerkin method that combines the subgrid eddy viscosity method proposed in W. Layton, A connection between subgrid scale eddy viscosity and mixed methods. Appl. Math. Comp., 133: 147-157, 2002, and a conventional Lagrange-Galerkin method in the framework of P1⊕ cubic bubble finite elements. This results in an efficient and easy to i...