Flow Structures Identification through Proper Orthogonal Decomposition: The Flow around Two Distinct Cylinders

Autor: Luís Jorge Lima Ferrás, Ângela M. Ribau, N. D. Gonçalves, Alexandre M. Afonso
Přispěvatelé: Universidade do Minho
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Computer science
Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Mecânica
Base (geometry)
von Kármán vortex street
02 engineering and technology
Indústria
inovação e infraestruturas

01 natural sciences
Kármán vortex street
Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
010305 fluids & plasmas
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Navier–Stokes equations
020401 chemical engineering
0103 physical sciences
Fluid dynamics
Newtonian fluid
0204 chemical engineering
Ciências Naturais::Matemáticas
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
QC120-168.85
Science & Technology
proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)
Mechanical Engineering
Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
Engenharia Mecânica [Engenharia e Tecnologia]
Mechanics
Condensed Matter Physics
computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Vortex
Flow (mathematics)
Descriptive and experimental mechanics
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Thermodynamics
Von Kármán vortex street
Ciências da Computação e da Informação [Ciências Naturais]
QC310.15-319
Generator (mathematics)
Matemáticas [Ciências Naturais]
Zdroj: Fluids, Vol 6, Iss 384, p 384 (2021)
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
instacron:RCAAP
Fluids
Volume 6
Issue 11
ISSN: 2311-5521
Popis: Numerical simulations of fluid flows can produce a huge amount of data and inadvertently important flow structures can be ignored, if a thorough analysis is not performed. The identification of these flow structures, mainly in transient situations, is a complex task, since such structures change in time and can move along the domain. With the decomposition of the entire data set into smaller sets, important structures present in the main flow and structures with periodic behaviour, like vortices, can be identified. Therefore, through the analysis of the frequency of each of these components and using a smaller number of components, we show that the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition can be used not only to reduce the amount of significant data, but also to obtain a better and global understanding of the flow (through the analysis of specific modes). In this work, the von Kármán vortex street is decomposed into a generator base and analysed through the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for the 2D flow around a cylinder and the 2D flow around two cylinders with different radii. We consider a Newtonian fluid and two non-Newtonian power-law fluids, with n=0.7 and n=1.3. Grouping specific modes, a reconstruction is made, allowing the identification of complex structures that otherwise would be impossible to identify using simple post-processing of the fluid flow.
This research was funded by FCT( Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia I.P.), FSE (Fundo Social Europeu), NORTE2020, CEFT (Centro de Estudos de Fenomenos de Transporte) and by FEDER funds through COMPETE2020. Grants: PTDC/EMS-ENE/3362/2014, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016665, UIDB/00013/2020, UIDP/00013/2020, UIDP/00532/2020, UIDB/00532/2020, SFRH/BD/143950/2019.
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