This work focuses on the development of the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulents flows. The DG method shows some interesting properties for LES : high-order of accuracy, compact stencil, unstructured meshes and amodal polynomial basis which can be used to implement multiscale turbulence models. We consider in this work the Variational Multiscale approach (VMS), which consists in splitting the resolved scales into two components using the modal basis in order to restrict the action of the model to a given range of small scales. The models have been tuned using the transfer functions of the DG hp-discretizations. The accuracy of the DG method for the representation of turbulent phenomena has been assessed through DNS of free and wall-bounded canonical flows. Finally, the VMS/DG approach has been assessed for simple configurations at high Reynolds numbers. We have shown that this particular approach allows for an accurate representation of turbulent flows for coarse discretizations.
