We explore the potential of a formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations
incorporating a random description of the small-scale velocity component. This
model, established from a version of the Reynolds transport theorem adapted to
a stochastic representation of the flow, gives rise to a large-scale
description of the flow dynamics in which emerges an anisotropic subgrid
tensor, reminiscent to the Reynolds stress tensor, together with a drift
correction due to an inhomogeneous turbulence. The corresponding subgrid model,
which depends on the small scales velocity variance, generalizes the Boussinesq
eddy viscosity assumption. However, it is not anymore obtained from an analogy
with molecular dissipation but ensues rigorously from the random modeling of
the flow. This principle allows us to propose several subgrid models defined
directly on the resolved flow component. We assess and compare numerically
those models on a standard Green-Taylor vortex flow at Reynolds 1600. The
numerical simulations, carried out with an accurate divergence-free scheme,
outperform classical large-eddies formulations and provides a simple
demonstration of the pertinence of the proposed large-scale modeling