Turbulence Closure Models: Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) & Large Eddy Simulations (LES)

Turbulent fluid dynamics are often too complex to model every detail. Instead, we tend to model bulk quantities and low-resolution approximations. To remain physical, these reduced approximations of the Navier-Stokes equations must be 'closed', and turbulence closure modeling is one of the most important topics in high-performance computing and scientific computing. This video describes several leading approaches, including the Reynolds averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) equations and large eddy simulations (LES).