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20192024
most citedAsymptotic dynamics of high dynamic range stratified turbulence

44 citations · 174 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

math.NA2024

Accelerating multigrid solver with generative super-resolution

Francisco Holguin, GS Sidharth, Gavin Portwood

The geometric multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Probabilistic neural networks for predicting energy dissipation rates in geophysical turbulent flows

Sam F. Lewin, Stephen M. de Bruyn Kops, Gavin D. Portwood +1

Motivated by oceanographic observational datasets, we propose a probabilistic neural network (PNN) model for calculating turbulent energy dissipation rates from vertical columns of…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 8 cited

Validation and parameterization of a novel physics-constrained neural dynamics model applied to turbulent fluid flow

Varun Shankar, Gavin D. Portwood, Arvind T. Mohan +6

In fluid physics, data-driven models to enhance or accelerate solution methods are becoming increasingly popular for many application domains, such as alternatives to turbulence cl…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 7 cited

Analysis of scale-dependent kinetic and potential energy in sheared, stably stratified turbulence

Xiaolong Zhang, Rohit Dhariwal, Gavin Portwood +2

Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and turbulent potential energy (TPE) at different scales in sheared, stably stratified turbulence are analyzed using a filtering ap…

math.NA2021

Multigrid Solver With Super-Resolved Interpolation

Francisco Holguin, GS Sidharth, Gavin Portwood

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer gri…

physics.flu-dyn2020

Idealised Turbulent Wake With Steady, Non-Uniform Ambient Density Stratification

G. D. Portwood, S. M. de Bruyn Kops

Density stratification in geophysical environments can be non-uniform, particularly in thermohaline staircases and atmospheric layer transitions. Non-uniform stratification, howeve…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 7 cited

Implications of inertial subrange scaling for stably stratified mixing

G. D. Portwood, S. M. de Bruyn Kops, C. P. Caulfield

The effects of turbulent dynamic range on scalar mixing in stably stratified turbulence are investigated by an adaptation of the theoretical passive scalar modelling arguments of B…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Accelerating Training in Artificial Neural Networks with Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Mauricio E. Tano, Gavin D. Portwood, Jean C. Ragusa

Training of deep neural networks (DNNs) frequently involves optimizing several millions or even billions of parameters. Even with modern computing architectures, the computational…

physics.comp-ph2020★ 36 cited

Interpreting neural network models of residual scalar flux

Gavin D. Portwood, Balasubramanya T. Nadiga, Juan A. Saenz +1

We show that in addition to providing effective and competitive closures, when analysed in terms of dynamics and physically-relevant diagnostics, artificial neural networks (ANNs)…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 24 cited

Turbulence forecasting via Neural ODE

Gavin D. Portwood, Peetak P. Mitra, Mateus Dias Ribeiro +9

Fluid turbulence is characterized by strong coupling across a broad range of scales. Furthermore, besides the usual local cascades, such coupling may extend to interactions that ar…

physics.flu-dyn2019

Unsupervised Machine Learning to Teach Fluid Dynamicists to Think in 15 Dimensions

S. M. de Bruyn Kops, D. J. Saunders, E. A. Rietman +1

An autoencoder is used to compress and then reconstruct three-dimensional stratified turbulence data in order to better understand fluid dynamics by studying the errors in the reco…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 44 cited

Asymptotic dynamics of high dynamic range stratified turbulence

G. D. Portwood, S. M. de Bruyn Kops, C. P. Caulfield

Direct numerical simulations of homogeneous sheared and stably stratified turbulence are considered to probe the asymptotic high-dynamic range regime suggested by Gargett et al. 19…