scholarly journals Reduced Order Description of Experimental Two-Phase Pipe Flows: Characterization of Flow Structures and Dynamics via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Viggiano
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Amor ◽  
José M Pérez ◽  
Philipp Schlatter ◽  
Ricardo Vinuesa ◽  
Soledad Le Clainche

Abstract This article introduces some soft computing methods generally used for data analysis and flow pattern detection in fluid dynamics. These techniques decompose the original flow field as an expansion of modes, which can be either orthogonal in time (variants of dynamic mode decomposition), or in space (variants of proper orthogonal decomposition) or in time and space (spectral proper orthogonal decomposition), or they can simply be selected using some sophisticated statistical techniques (empirical mode decomposition). The performance of these methods is tested in the turbulent wake of a wall-mounted square cylinder. This highly complex flow is suitable to show the ability of the aforementioned methods to reduce the degrees of freedom of the original data by only retaining the large scales in the flow. The main result is a reduced-order model of the original flow case, based on a low number of modes. A deep discussion is carried out about how to choose the most computationally efficient method to obtain suitable reduced-order models of the flow. The techniques introduced in this article are data-driven methods that could be applied to model any type of non-linear dynamical system, including numerical and experimental databases.


Author(s):  
Alok Sinha

This paper deals with the development of an accurate reduced-order model of a bladed disk with geometric mistuning. The method is based on vibratory modes of various tuned systems and proper orthogonal decomposition of coordinate measurement machine (CMM) data on blade geometries. Results for an academic rotor are presented to establish the validity of the technique.


2009 ◽  
Vol 629 ◽  
pp. 41-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER HAY ◽  
JEFFREY T. BORGGAARD ◽  
DOMINIQUE PELLETIER

The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is the prevailing method for basis generation in the model reduction of fluids. A serious limitation of this method, however, is that it is empirical. In other words, this basis accurately represents the flow data used to generate it, but may not be accurate when applied ‘off-design’. Thus, the reduced-order model may lose accuracy for flow parameters (e.g. Reynolds number, initial or boundary conditions and forcing parameters) different from those used to generate the POD basis and generally does. This paper investigates the use of sensitivity analysis in the basis selection step to partially address this limitation. We examine two strategies that use the sensitivity of the POD modes with respect to the problem parameters. Numerical experiments performed on the flow past a square cylinder over a range of Reynolds numbers demonstrate the effectiveness of these strategies. The newly derived bases allow for a more accurate representation of the flows when exploring the parameter space. Expanding the POD basis built at one state with its sensitivity leads to low-dimensional dynamical systems having attractors that approximate fairly well the attractor of the full-order Navier–Stokes equations for large parameter changes.


Author(s):  
Matthias Witte ◽  
Benjamin Torner ◽  
Frank-Hendrik Wurm

Tonalities in hydro and airborne noise emission are a known problem of turbomachines, wherein the tonalities in the noise spectrum are associated with the different orders of the blade passing frequency (BPF). The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method was utilized to find the relationship between the fluctuations in the pressure field at the BPF orders which are the origin of the noise emission and the correlated fluctuations in the turbulent velocity field in terms of coherent, periodic flow structures. In order the provide the input data for the POD analysis, a URANS k-ω-SST scale adaptive simulation (SAS) of the turbulent flow field in a single stage radial pump under part load conditions was performed. Compared to traditional two equation turbulence models this approach is less dissipative and allows the development of small scale turbulence structures and is therefore an appropriate method for this study. In order to compute the POD correlation matrix Sirovich’s “Methods of Snapshots” was applied to the unsteady pressure and velocity fields from the CFD simulation. The discrimination of coherent, periodic flow structures and the incoherent, chaotic turbulence was carried out by analyzing the POD eigenvalue distributions, the POD mode shapes and the spectral properties of the POD time coefficients. Five coupled POD mode pairs were identified in total, which were strictly correlated with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order of the BPF and therefore responsible for the noise emission at these discrete frequencies. The coherent structures were explored on the basis of the spatial POD velocity und pressure mode shapes and in terms of vortical structures after an additional phase averaging. The scope of this study is to introduce an enhanced collection of post processing techniques which are capable of analyzing highly unsteady flow fields from numerical simulations in a better way than is possible by just using traditional techniques like the evaluation of integral or time averaged quantities. The identified coherent flow structures and their associated pressure fluctuations are key elements for a proper comprehension of the internal dynamics of the turbulent flow field in a turbomachine and therefore essential for the understanding of the noise generation processes and the optimization of such machines.


Author(s):  
Le Quang Phan ◽  
Andrew Johnstone ◽  
P. Buyung Kosasih ◽  
Wayne Renshaw

Abstract Wiping jet impingement pressure is important in controlling the coating mass (thickness) and influencing the smoothness of the thin metallic coating produced in continuous galvanizing lines (CGLs). However, the fluctuation of the impingement pressure profile that directly impacts the coating smoothness has not been adequately understood. To study key features of the impingement pressure fluctuation, the instantaneous impingement pressure profiles obtained from Large Eddy Simulations were analyzed using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD). Dominant fluctuation modes of pressure profiles can be differentiated from the energy contents of the modes corresponding to different jet types namely mixing, non-mixing, and transitional mixing jet. The dominant modes of mixing jets in the wiping region contain comparable strength of all modes (flapping, pulsing, and out-of-phase multi pulsing). Non-mixing jets do not show discernable fluctuation modes and transitional mixing jets show pulsing and flapping modes only. Additionally, instantaneous maximum pressure gradient and their location were determined from the reduced-order reconstruction of the pressure profiles. From the analysis, frequency spectra of the magnitude and location fluctuations of the maximum pressure gradients associated with each of the jet types can be clearly distinguished. This is a knowledge that may be helpful for CGL operators in the operation of wiping jets.


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