Toward a chaotic adjoint for LES

Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis methods are powerful tools for engineers who use flow simulations for design. However, the conventional adjoint method breaks down for scale-resolving simulations like large-eddy simulation (LES) or direct numerical simulation (DNS), which exhibit the chaotic dynamics inherent in turbulent flows. Sensitivity analysis based on least-squares shadowing (LSS) avoids the issues encountered by conventional methods, but has a high computational cost. The following report outlines a new, more computationally efficient formulation of LSS, non-intrusive LSS, and estimates its cost for several canonical flows using Lyapunov analysis.

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