Predicting Coherent Turbulent Structures via Deep Learning
2022 (English)In: Frontiers in Physics, E-ISSN 2296-424X, Vol. 10, article id 888832
Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Turbulent flow is widespread in many applications, such as airplane wings or turbine blades. Such flow is highly chaotic and impossible to predict far into the future. Some regions exhibit a coherent physical behavior in turbulent flow, satisfying specific properties; these regions are denoted as coherent structures. This work considers structures connected with the Reynolds stresses, which are essential quantities for modeling and understanding turbulent flows. Deep-learning techniques have recently had promising results for modeling turbulence, and here we investigate their capabilities for modeling coherent structures. We use data from a direct numerical simulation (DNS) of a turbulent channel flow to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) and predict the number and volume of the coherent structures in the channel over time. Overall, the performance of the CNN model is very good, with a satisfactory agreement between the predicted geometrical properties of the structures and those of the reference DNS data.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Frontiers Media SA , 2022. Vol. 10, article id 888832
Keywords [en]
turbulence, coherent turbulent structures, machine learning, convolutional neural networks, deep learning
National Category
Metallurgy and Metallic Materials Other Physics Topics Building Technologies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-312777DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2022.888832ISI: 000791945300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85128911862OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-312777DiVA, id: diva2:1660021
Note
QC 20220523
2022-05-232022-05-232024-03-15Bibliographically approved