Filtering the passive scalar transport equation in large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent gives rise to closure term corresponding unresolved flux. Understanding and respecting statistical features subgrid-scale (SGS) flux is a crucial point robustness predictability LES. In this work, we investigate intrinsic nonlocal behavior SGS through studying its two-point statistics obtained from filte...

For a symmetric positive semidefinite linear system of equations Qx = b, where x = (x1, . . . , xs) is partitioned into s blocks, with s ≥ 2, we show that each cycle of the classical block symmetric Gauss-Seidel (block sGS) method exactly solves the associated quadratic programming (QP) problem but added with an extra proximal term of the form 12‖x−x ‖T , where T is a symmetric positive semidef...

In gas explosions, the unsteady coupling of the propagating flame and the flow field induced by the presence of blockages along the flame path produces vortices of different scales ahead of the flame front. The resulting flame/vortex interaction intensifies the rate of flame propagation and the pressure rise. In this paper, a joint numerical and experimental study of unsteady premixed flame pro...

Soil attributes, including those in mine spoil heaps, critically affect plant growth during land rehabilitation. Their characterization through a limited number of samples requires quantification of spatial variability, which is then used at various stages throughout the rehabilitation process and assists risk analysis and rehabilitation decision making. Stochastic simulation is a tool used for...

Large-eddy simulation (LES) has become an indispensable tool for prediction of turbulent atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow. In LES, a subgrid-scale (SGS) model accounts for the dynamics of the unresolved scales of motion. The most widely used SGS model is an eddy-viscosity closure, the Smagorinsky model, which includes a parameter that must be prescribed in some fashion, the Smagorinsky con...

In recent years field experiments have been undertaken in the lower atmosphere to perform a priori tests of subgrid-scale (SGS)models for large-eddy simulations (LES). The experimental arrangements and data collected have facilitated studies of variables such as the filtered strain rate, SGS stress and dissipation, and the eddy viscosity coefficient. However, the experimental set-ups did not pe...

High temperature adversely affects normal development of male germ cells in mammals. Acute heat stress induces the formation of stress granules (SGs) in a set of male germ cells, and the SGs have been proposed to protect those cells from heat-induced apoptosis. DAZL, one of DAZ (Deleted in Azoospermia) family proteins, was shown to be an essential component of SGs, which is required for SG form...

We consider Bayesian inference when only a limited number of noisy log-likelihood evaluations can be obtained. This occurs for example complex simulator-based statistical models are fitted to data, and synthetic likelihood (SL) method is used form the estimates using computationally costly forward simulations. frame task as sequential experimental design problem, where function modelled with hi...