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Advances in Variational Multiscale Methods for Turbulent Flows

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This article presents some of our recent approaches to variational multiscale methods for turbulent flows. The residual-based variational multiscale method using a dynamic subgrid-scale approximation is presented as well as the algebraic variational multiscalemultigrid method for large eddy simulation of turbulent flows. The influence of isogeometric representations is briefly reviewed and current research directions are described in the context of turbulent fluid-structure interaction. Preliminary results for turbulent channel flow on moving meshes are provided.

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  1. Institute for Computational Mechanics, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85747, Garching, Germany

    Peter Gamnitzer, Volker Gravemeier & Wolfgang A. Wall

  2. Emmy Noether Research Group “Computational Multiscale Methods for Turbulent Combustion”, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85747, Garching, Germany

    Volker Gravemeier

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    René de Borst

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    Ekkehard Ramm

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Gamnitzer, P., Gravemeier, V., Wall, W.A. (2010). Advances in Variational Multiscale Methods for Turbulent Flows. In: de Borst, R., Ramm, E. (eds) Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9809-2_3

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