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6 - Coarse-Graining Turbulence Using the Mori–Zwanzig Formalism

from Part I - Paradigms and Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2025

By
Eric Parish  and
Karthik Duraisamy
Edited by
Fernando F. Grinstein ,
Filipe S. Pereira  and
Massimo Germano
Fernando F. Grinstein
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Filipe S. Pereira
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Massimo Germano
Affiliation:
Duke University, North Carolina
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Summary

Originating from irreversible statistical mechanics, the Mori–Zwanzig (M–Z) formalism provides a mathematical procedure for the development of coarse-grained models of complex systems, such as turbulence, that lack scale separation. The M–Z formalism begins with the application of a specialized class of projectors to the governing equations. By leveraging these projectors, the M–Z procedure results in a reduced system, commonly referred to as the generalized Langevin equation (GLE). The GLE encapsulates the system’s behavior on a macroscopic (resolved) scale. The influence of the microscopic (unresolved) scales on resolved scales appears as a convolution integral – often referred to as memory – and an additional noise term. In essence, fully resolved Markovian dynamics is transformed into coarse grained non-Markovian dynamics. The appearance of the memory term in the GLE demonstrates that the coarse-graining procedure leads to nonlocal memory effects, which have to be modeled. This chapter introduces the mathematics behind the projection approach and the derivation of the GLE. Beyond the theoretical developments, the practical application of the M–Z procedure in the construction of subgrid-scale models for large eddy simulations is also presented.

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Coarse Graining Turbulence
Modeling and Data-Driven Approaches and their Applications
 , pp. 177 - 201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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