Citing the database in your work
The JH Turbulence Database (JHTDB) is developed as an open resource by the Johns Hopkins University, under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. Continued support for the database depends on demonstrable evidence of the database's value to the scientific community. Hence, we kindly request that you cite the database in your publications and presentations. The data in Johns Hopkins Turbulence Databases are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License(ODC-By), which means it is open to use, but requires attribution.
The following citations are suggested.
For journal articles, proceedings, etc.., we suggest:
Y.Li, E.Perlman, M.Wan, Y.Yang, C.Meneveau, R.Burns, S.Chen, A.Szalay & G.Eyink. "A public turbulence database cluster and applications to study Lagrangian evolution of velocity increments in turbulence". Journal of Turbulence 9, No. 31, 2008. E.Perlman, R.Burns, Y.Li, and C.Meneveau. "Data Exploration of Turbulence Simulations using a Database Cluster". Supercomputing SC07, ACM, IEEE, 2007.
For presentations, posters, etc.., we suggest:
Data obtained from the JHTDB at http://turbulence.idies.jhu.edu
For articles that use the channel flow data, we suggest also including:
J.Graham, K.Kanov, X.I.A.Yang, M.K.Lee, N.Malaya, C.C.Lalescu, R.Burns, G.Eyink, A.Szalay, R.D.Moser.and C.Meneveau:A Web Services - accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES. Journal of Turbulence 17(2), 181 - 215, 2016.(© Taylor & Francis, see http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14685248.2015.1088656)
For articles that use the mhd flow data, we suggest also including:
G.Eyink, E.Vishniac, C.Lalescu, H.Aluie, K.Kanov, K.Bürger, R.Burns, C.Meneveau and A.Szalay. Flux - freezing breakdown in high - conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. Nature, 497(7450), 466 - 469, 2013.
For articles that use the mixing flow data, we suggest also including:
D.Livescu, C.Canada, K.Kanov, R.Burns & IDIES staff, J.Pulido, "Homogeneous Buoyancy driven turbulence data set"(2014), available at http://turbulence.idies.jhu.edu/docs/hbdt/README-HBDT.pdf
For articles that use the 40963 isotropic turbulence, we suggest also including:
P.K.Yeung, D.A.Donzis, and K.R.Sreenivasan. "Dissipation, enstrophy and pressure statistics in turbulence simulations at high Reynolds numbers ".Journal of Fluid Mechanics 700, 5 - 15, 2012.
For articles that use the developing boundary layer data, we suggest also including:
T.A.Zaki. "From streaks to spots and on to turbulence: exploring the dynamics of boundary layer transition".Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 91(3), 451 - 473, 2013.
For articles that use the channel flow at Reτ = 5200 data, we suggest also including:
Myoungkyu Lee and Robert D.Moser, "Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to Re_tau = 5200".Journal of Fluid Mechanics 774, 395 - 415, 2015.
For articles that use the 81923 isotropic turbulence, we suggest also including:
For snapshots 0 - 4: P.K.Yeung, X.M.Zhai, and K.R.Sreenivasan. "Extreme events in computational turbulence".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 12633 - 12638, 2015. For snapshots 5: P.K.Yeung, K.R.Sreenivasan, and S.B.Pope. "Effects of finite spatial and temporal resolution on extreme events in direct numerical simulations of incompressible isotropic turbulence".Physical Review Fluids 3, 064603, 2018.
For articles that use the 32,7683 isotropic turbulence, we suggest also including:
P.K. Yeung, P.K., K. Ravikumar, R. Uma-Vaideswaran, K.R. Sreenivasan, S.B. Pope, C. Meneveau, and S. Nichols, “Small-scale properties from exascale computations of turbulence on a 32768^3 periodic cube” (2025), J. Fluid Mech. 1019, R2.
For articles that use the Lagrangian tracking GetPosition function, we suggest also including:
H.Yu, K.Kanov, E.Perlman, J.Graham, E.Frederix, R.Burns, A.Szalay, G.Eyink, and C.Meneveau. "Studying Lagrangian dynamics of turbulence using on-demand fluid particle tracking in a public turbulence database".Journal of Turbulence 13, No. 12, 2012.
For articles that use the Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer data, we suggest also including:
JC McWilliams, C Meneveau, EG Patton, and PP Sullivan. “Stable boundary layers and subfilter-scale motions”. Atmosphere 14, 1107, 2023.
For articles that use the JHTDB-wind conventionally neutral 60-turbine dataset, please cite:
X. Zhu, S. Xiao, G. Narasimhan, L. A. Martinez-Tossas, M. Schnaubelt, G. Lemson, A. Szalay, D. F. Gayme, and C. Meneveau, “JHTDB-wind: a wind farm large eddy simulation database with web-services enabled, virtual sensor querying” (2025), Wind Energy Science 10, 2821-2840.
For articles that use the JHTDB-wind diurnal cycle 8-turbine dataset, please cite:
S. Xiao, X. Zhu, G. Narasimhan, D.F. Gayme, and C. Meneveau, “Wind Farm Dynamics over a Diurnal Cycle: Analysis of a Comprehensive Large Eddy Simulation Web-Services Accessible Dataset" (2025), J. Sustainable and Renewable Energy 17, 063301.
In addition to the published papers mentioned above, each dataset has a specific DOI:
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Turbulent Channel Flow: https://doi.org/10.7281/T10K26QW
Turbulent Channel Flow at Reτ = 5200: https://doi.org/10.7281/T1PV6HJV
Isotropic Turbulence on 10243 Grid (isotropic1024coarse): https://doi.org/10.7281/T1KK98XB
Isotropic Turbulence on 40963 Grid (isotropic4096): https://doi.org/10.7281/T1DN4363
Isotropic Turbulence on 8,1923 Grid (isotropic8192): TBD
Isotropic Turbulence on 32,7683 Grid (isotropic32768): TBD
Magneto-Hydrodynamic Turbulence on 10243 Grid (mhd1024): https://doi.org/10.7281/T1930RBS
Homogeneous Buoyancy Driven Turbulence on 10243 Grid (mixing): https://doi.org/10.7281/T1VX0DPC
Rotating Stratified Turbulence Dataset on 40963 Grid (rotstrat4096): https://doi.org/10.7281/T1J964JJ
Stably Stratified Atmospheric boundary layer on 2,0483 grid (sabl2048*,stsabl2048*): TBD
Transitional Boundary Layer (transition_bl): https://doi.org/10.7281/T17S7KX8
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Neutral Boundary Layer Windfarm (nbl_windfarm): https://doi.org/10.26144/D8ES-FC15
Diurnal Windfarm (diurnal_windfarm): TBD