Journal
THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 1-19Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00162-018-0480-2
Keywords
Data-driven; Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes; High-speed flow; Direct numerical simulation
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- AFOSR [FA9550-14-1-0170]
- NASA Langley Research Center through the National Institute of Aerospace [NNL09AA00A]
- NSF's Petascale Computing Resource Allocations Program [NSF ACI-1640865]
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Modeled Reynolds stress is a major source of model-form uncertainties in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations. Recently, a physics-informed machine learning (PIML) approach has been proposed for reconstructing the discrepancies in RANS-modeled Reynolds stresses. The merits of the PIML framework have been demonstrated in several canonical incompressible flows. However, its performance on high-Mach-number flows is still not clear. In this work, we use the PIML approach to predict the discrepancies in RANS-modeled Reynolds stresses in high-Mach-number flat-plate turbulent boundary layers by using an existing DNS database. Specifically, the discrepancy function is first constructed using a DNS training flow and then used to correct RANS-predicted Reynolds stresses under flow conditions different from the DNS. The machine learning technique is shown to significantly improve RANS-modeled turbulent normal stresses, the turbulent kinetic energy, and the Reynolds stress anisotropy. Improvements are consistently observed when different training datasets are used. Moreover, a high-dimensional visualization technique and a distance metrics are used to provide a priori assessment of prediction confidence based only on RANS simulations. This study demonstrates that the PIML approach is a computationally affordable technique for improving the accuracy of RANS-modeled Reynolds stresses for high-Mach-number turbulent flows when there is a lack of experiments and high-fidelity simulations.
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