UMich/NASA Symposium on
Advances in Turbulence Modeling
Venue: North Quad Room NQ 1255, (UM School of Information), 105 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI
Agenda
DAY 1: TUESDAY (JULY 11)
9:00 am: Welcome, info & overview (Karthik Duraisamy, U. Michigan)
9:15 am: Conference goals & spirit (Philippe Spalart, Boeing)
9:30 am: Keynote: Status of Industrial Turbulence Modeling (Florian Menter, Ansys) Download
10:15am-10:30am: Discussion
Session A) New ideas for turbulence modeling
] 10:30 am: A Structure-Based Model for the Transport of Scalars in Homogeneous Turbu-
lent Flows (Constantinos Panagiotou, U. Tokyo)
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] 10:50 am: Reynolds Stress Closure for Non-equilibrium Effects in Turbulent Flows (Peter
Hamlington, U. Colorado)
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] 11:10 am: One-point PDF closure model applied to attached and separated flows
(Michael Stoellinger, U. Wyoming)
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11:30 am-11:50 am: Discussion
11:50 am-1:15 pm: Lunch
Session B) Reynolds Stress Transport Modeling
] 1:15 pm: Plenary: Reynolds stress modeling of Turbulence (Suad Jakirlic, TU Darmstadt) Download
] 2:00 pm: Perspective on Turbulence Modeling using Reynolds Stress Models : General
approach (Bernhard Eisfeld, DLR)
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] 2:30 pm: Perspective on Turbulence Modeling using Reynolds Stress Models : Modifica-
tion for pressure gradients (Tobias Knopp, DLR)
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] 2:45 pm: Initial Efforts to Improve Reynolds Stress Model Predictions for Separated
Flows (Chris Rumsey, NASA Langley)
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3:05pm-3:30pm: Discussion
Session C) RANS or hybrid development
] 3:30 pm: Development of a One-Equation Eddy Viscosity Turbulence Model for Appli-
cation to Complex Turbulent Flows (Ramesh Agarwal, Washington Univ)
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] 4:00 pm: RANS model development at LLNL for the prediction of turbulent mixing
(Brandon Morgan, LLNL)
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] 4:20 pm: A Framework for Multicomponent, Reynolds-Averaged NavierStokes Model-
ing of Hydrodynamic Instability-Induced Turbulent Mixing (Oleg Schilling, LLNL)
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] 4:40 pm: Influence of a Quadratic Constitutive Relation on Detached Eddy Simulations
(Jim Coder, U Tennessee)
5:00pm-5:30pm: Discussion
DAY 2: WEDNESDAY (JULY 12)
9:00 am: Plenary : Uncertainty Quantification in Turbulence Modeling (Robert Moser, U.
Texas)
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9:45am-10:00am: Discussion
Session D) Experiments
] 10:00 am: Plenary: Experiments to aid understanding and modeling of turbulence
(Alexander Smits, Princeton)
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] 10:45 am: Quantitative Characterization of Pressure-related Turbulence Transport Terms
using Simultaneous Nonintrusive Pressure and Velocity Measurement (Xiaofeng Liu,
SDSU)
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] 11:05 am: Modern CFD Validation for Turbulent Flow Separation on Axisymmetric Af-
terbodies (Kevin Disotell, NASA Langley)
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] 11:25 am: Development of a benchmark problem for modelingtransitional unsteady
flows: acombined experimental/computational approach (Todd Lowe, Virginia Tech)
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11:45am-noon: Discussion
noon-1:15pm: Lunch
Session E) Data-driven methods
] 1:15 pm: Plenary: Data-driven Turbulence Modeling: Challenges and Progress (Karthik
Duraisamy, U. Michigan)
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] 1:45 pm: Field Inversion and Machine Learning for Predictive Turbulence Modeling
(Anand Pratap Singh, U. Michigan)
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] 2:05 pm: A Machine Learning Approach for Turbulent Scalar Mixing with Applications
in Film Cooling (Pedro Milani, Stanford)
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] 2:25 pm: A Physics-based Machine learning approach for predictive turbulence model-
ing (Heng Xiao, Virginia Tech)
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] 2:45 pm: Data-driven turbulence modeling applied to separated flows (Nicolo Fabbiane,
ONERA)
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3:05pm-3:30 pm: Discussion
Session F) Flow solution technologies for the future
] 3:30 pm: Plenary: Turbulent flow solvers Perspectives on HPC and numerical methods
(Juan Alonso, Stanford)
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] 4:10 pm: Resolution Requirements for DG-LES (Shervin Sammak, U. Pittsburgh) Download
] 4:30 pm: A self-contained filtered density function (Arash Nouri, U. Pittsburgh) Download
4:50pm5:15 pm: Discussion
DAY 3: THURSDAY (JULY 13)
9:00 am: Discussion : Philosophies / Trends / Glass ceiling in Turbulence Modeling
(Philippe Spalart, Boeing)
Session G) DNS/LES & Applications
] 9:45 am: DNS / LES of turbulent separated flows (Ponnampalam Balakumar, NASA
Langley)
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] 10:05 am: Novel uses of DNS with turbulent separation for RANS models (Gary Cole-
man, NASA Langley)
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] 10:25 am: Challenges for RANS models in Turbomachinery flows (Gorazd Medic ,
UTRC)
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] 10:45 am: Appropriate differential Reynolds stress modeling for Turbomachinery flows
(Christian Morsbach, DLR)
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11:05 am 11:45 am: Discussion
11:45 am - 1:15 pm: Lunch
1:15 pm: RCA Workshop/ Vision 2030 discussion (Chris Rumsey / Mujeeb Malik) Download
2:00 pm: Workshop summary, wrap up
3:00 pm: Close
