A features-embedded-learning immersed boundary model for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows with complex boundaries

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel features-embedded-learning immersed boundary model for large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows with complex boundaries, improving boundary condition approximation using neural networks and hybrid WMLES-IB methods.

Contribution

It develops a neural network-based boundary model integrated with WMLES-IB, enabling accurate simulation of complex turbulent flows with immersed boundaries.

Findings

Accurate velocity profiles for flow over a body of revolution.

Good prediction of velocity, skin-friction, and pressure coefficients for submarine model.

Effective neural network training with high-fidelity data and ensemble Kalman method.

Abstract

The hybrid wall-modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) and immersed boundary (IB) method offers significant flexibility for simulating high Reynolds number flows involving complex boundaries. However, the approximate boundary conditions (e.g., the wall shear stress boundary condition) developed for body-fitted grids in the literature are not directly applicable to IB methods. In this work, we propose a features-embedded-learning-IB (FEL-IB) wall model to approximate IB boundaries in the hybrid WMLES-IB method, in which the velocity at the IB node (a grid node located in the fluid that has at least one neighbor in the solid) is reconstructed using the power law of the wall, and the momentum flux at the interface between the IB nodes and the fluid nodes is approximated using a neural network model. The neural network model for momentum flux is first pretrained using high-fidelity simulation data of the flow over periodic hills and the logarithmic law, and then learned in the WMLES environment using the ensemble Kalman method. The proposed model is evaluated using two challenging cases: the flow over a body of revolution and the DARPA Suboff submarine model. For the first case, good agreement with the reference data is obtained for the vertical profiles of the streamwise velocity. For the flow over the DARPA Suboff submarine model, WMLES cases with two Reynolds numbers and two grid resolutions are carried out. Overall good a posteriori performance is observed for predicting the mean and root mean square of velocity profiles at various streamwise locations, as well as the skin-friction and pressure coefficients.