Table 14 Derived feature fields available in the dataset.

From: A curated dataset for data-driven turbulence modelling

Quantity

Units

Symbol

Field name

Expression

Features from RANS

Mean velocity gradient tensor

s−1

U

gradU

\(\frac{\partial {U}_{i}}{\partial {x}_{j}}\)

Mean strain rate tensor

s−1

S

S

\(\frac{1}{2}\left(\nabla U+\nabla {U}^{T}\right)\)

Mean rotation rate tensor

s−1

R

R

\(\frac{1}{2}\left(\nabla U-\nabla {U}^{T}\right)\)

Non-dimensional strain rate tensor

\(\widehat{S}\)

Shat

\({T}_{t}S\)

Non-dimensional rotation rate tensor

\(\widehat{R}\)

Rhat

\({T}_{t}R\)

TKE gradient vector

m/s2

k

gradk

\(\frac{\partial k}{\partial {x}_{j}}\)

Pressure gradient vector

m/s2

p

gradp

\(\frac{\partial p}{\partial {x}_{j}}\)

Antisymmetric tensor associated with k

m/s2

Ak

Ak

\(\left[\begin{array}{ccc}0 & -{\partial }_{z}k & {\partial }_{y}k\\ {\partial }_{z}k & 0 & -{\partial }_{x}k\\ -{\partial }_{y}k & {\partial }_{x}k & 0\end{array}\right]\)

Antisymmetric tensor associated with p

m/s2

Ap

Ap

See Ak, replacing k with p

Non-dimensional Ak

\({\widehat{A}}_{k}\)

Akhat

\(\frac{\sqrt{k}{A}_{k}}{\varepsilon }\)

Non-dimensional Ap

\({\widehat{A}}_{p}\)

Aphat

\(\frac{{A}_{p}}{| {\rm{D}}U/{\rm{D}}t| }\)

Turbulent time scale

s

Tt

T_t

\(k/\varepsilon \)

Kolmogorov time scale

s

Tk

T_k

\(\sqrt{\frac{\nu }{\varepsilon }}\)

Pope’s 10 basis tensors

\({\widehat{{\mathscr{T}}}}_{n}\)

Tensors

See Pope4

Pope’s 5 invariants of S and R

λi

Lambda

See Pope4

47 invariants of \(\left\{\widehat{S},\widehat{R},{\widehat{A}}_{k},{\widehat{S}}_{p}\right\}\), as used by Wu et al.7

\({\mathscr{I}}\)

I

See Wu et al.7

Ratio of excess rotation to strain rate

q[:,0]

\(\frac{{\left\Vert \widehat{R}\right\Vert }^{2}-{\left\Vert \widehat{S}\right\Vert }^{2}}{2{\left\Vert \widehat{S}\right\Vert }^{2}}\)

Wall-distance based Reynolds number

q[:,1]

\({\rm{\min }}\left(\frac{\sqrt{k}{y}_{w}}{50\nu },2\right)\)

Ratio of turbulent time scale to mean strain time scale

q[:,2]

\(\frac{k}{\varepsilon }\left\Vert S\right\Vert \)

Ratio of total Reynolds stress to TKE

q[:,3]

\(\frac{\left\Vert \bar{{u}_{i}^{{\prime} }{u}_{j}^{{\prime} }}\right\Vert }{k}\)

Wall distance

m

yw

wallDistance

Material derivative of velocity field (equal to convective derivative)

m/s2

DU/Dt

DUDt

U·U

  1. For the definition of U, i is the row index, and j is the column index. All fields are derived based on cell center quantities for the collocated grid arrangement in OpenFOAM, which means that trace(U) may not be zero. The divergence-free velocity field imposed by the continuity equation is enforced at the cell faces, and Rhie-Chow interpolation36 is used to handle pressure-velocity coupling on the collocated grid.