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Thereby, the thermal energy transfer process involves an interaction of conduction within a solid body and convection from the solid surface by fluid motion. The approaches comprise a two-layer RANS\u2013LES approach (zonal LES), a hybrid RANS\u2013LES representative, the so-called improved delayed detached eddy simulation method (IDDES) and a non-equilibrium wall function model (WFLES), respectively. The results obtained are evaluated in comparison with direct numerical simulation (DNS) data and wall-resolved LES including thermal cases of large Reynolds numbers where DNS data are not available in the literature. It turns out that zonal LES, IDDES and WFLES are able to predict heat and fluid flow statistics along with wall shear stresses and Nusselt numbers accurately and that are physically consistent. Furthermore, it is found that IDDES, WFLES and zonal LES exhibit significantly lower computational costs than wall-resolved LES. Since IDDES and especially zonal LES require considerable extra work to generate numerical grids, this study indicates in particular that WFLES offers a promising near-wall modeling strategy for LES of conjugated heat transfer problems. Finally, an entropy generation analysis using the various models showed that the viscous entropy production is zero inside the solid region, peaks at the solid\u2013fluid interface and decreases rapidly with increasing wall distance within the fluid region. Except inside the solid region, where steep temperature gradients lead to high (thermal) entropy generation rates, a similar behavior is monitored for the entropy generation by heat transfer process.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e23060725","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,7]],"date-time":"2021-06-07T13:25:43Z","timestamp":1623072343000},"page":"725","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Predictions of Conjugate Heat Transfer in Turbulent Channel Flow Using Advanced Wall-Modeled Large Eddy Simulation Techniques"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7172-4653","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongxiang","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Energy and Power Plant Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6223-1774","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Florian","family":"Ries","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Energy and Power Plant Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1958-4670","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaushal","family":"Nishad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Energy and Power Plant Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4058-746X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Amsini","family":"Sadiki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Reactive Flows and Diagnostics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Energy and Power Plant Technology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany"},{"name":"Laboratoire de Genies des Procedes et Thermodynamique, Institut Superieur des Sciences et Techniques Appliquees, B.P. 6534 Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"927350","DOI":"10.1155\/2009\/927350","article-title":"Conjugate problems in conjugate heat transfer: Review","volume":"2009","author":"Dorfman","year":"2009","journal-title":"Math. 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