Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulations represent a cost-effective option for practical engineering applications, but are facing ever-growing demands for more accurate turbulence models. Recently, emerging machine learning techniques have had a promising impact on turbulence modeling, but are still in their infancy regarding widespread industrial adoption. Toward their extensive uptake, this paper presents a universally interpretable machine learning (UIML) framework for turbulence modeling, which consists of two parallel machine learning-based modules to directly infer the structural and parametric representations of turbulence physics, respectively. At each phase of model development, data reflecting the evolution dynamics of turbulence and domain knowledge representing prior physical considerations are converted into modeling knowledge. The data- and knowledge-driven UIML is investigated with a deep residual network. The following three aspects are demonstrated in detail: (i) a compact input feature parameterizing a new turbulent timescale is introduced to prevent nonunique mappings between conventional input arguments and output Reynolds stress; (ii) a realizability limiter is developed to overcome the under-constrained state of modeled stress; and (iii) fairness and noise-insensitivity constraints are included in the training procedure. Consequently, an invariant, realizable, unbiased, and robust data-driven turbulence model is achieved. The influences of the training dataset size, activation function, and network hyperparameter on the performance are also investigated. The resulting model exhibits good generalization across two- and three-dimensional flows, and captures the effects of the Reynolds number and aspect ratio. Finally, the underlying rationale behind prediction is explored.
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May 27 2021
An interpretable framework of data-driven turbulence modeling using deep neural networks
Chao Jiang (姜超)
;
Chao Jiang (姜超)
1
Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
, Harbin 150090, China
2
Key Lab of Structural Dynamics and Control of Ministry of Education
, Harbin 150090, China
3
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Data-driven Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology
, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Ricardo Vinuesa
;
Ricardo Vinuesa
4
SimEx/Flow, Engineering Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Swedish e-Science Research Centre (SeRC)
, Stockholm 100 44, Sweden
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Ruilin Chen (陈瑞林);
Ruilin Chen (陈瑞林)
1
Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
, Harbin 150090, China
2
Key Lab of Structural Dynamics and Control of Ministry of Education
, Harbin 150090, China
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Junyi Mi (米俊亦);
Junyi Mi (米俊亦)
1
Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
, Harbin 150090, China
2
Key Lab of Structural Dynamics and Control of Ministry of Education
, Harbin 150090, China
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Shujin Laima (赖马树金)
;
Shujin Laima (赖马树金)
1
Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
, Harbin 150090, China
2
Key Lab of Structural Dynamics and Control of Ministry of Education
, Harbin 150090, China
3
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Data-driven Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology
, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Hui Li (李惠)
Hui Li (李惠)
a)
1
Key Lab of Smart Prevention and Mitigation of Civil Engineering Disasters of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
, Harbin 150090, China
2
Key Lab of Structural Dynamics and Control of Ministry of Education
, Harbin 150090, China
3
Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Data-driven Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Applications, Southern University of Science and Technology
, Shenzhen 518055, China
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: lihui@hit.edu.cn
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: lihui@hit.edu.cn
Physics of Fluids 33, 055133 (2021)
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Received:
February 27 2021
Accepted:
April 19 2021
Citation
Chao Jiang, Ricardo Vinuesa, Ruilin Chen, Junyi Mi, Shujin Laima, Hui Li; An interpretable framework of data-driven turbulence modeling using deep neural networks. Physics of Fluids 1 May 2021; 33 (5): 055133. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048909
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