Quantitative evaluation of predictability of linear reduced-order model based on particle-image-velocimetry data of separated flow field around airfoil

• Published in: Experiments in fluids Vol. 62; no. 5
• Main Authors: Nonomura, Taku, Nankai, Koki, Iwasaki, Yuto, Komuro, Atsushi, Asai, Keisuke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.05.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Decomposition; Engineering; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Engineering Thermodynamics; Flow separation; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; Heat and Mass Transfer; Particle image velocimetry; Performance evaluation; Proper Orthogonal Decomposition; Quantitative analysis; Reduced order models; Research Article; Sparsity; Time measurement; Velocity distribution
• ISSN: 0723-4864; 1432-1114
• DOI: 10.1007/s00348-021-03205-8

A quantitative evaluation method for a reduced-order model of the flow field around an NACA0015 airfoil based on particle image velocimetry (PIV) data is proposed in the present paper. The velocity field data obtained by the time-resolved PIV measurement were decomposed into significant modes by a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) technique, and a linear reduced-order model was then constructed by the linear regression of the time advancement of the POD modes or the sparsity promoting dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). The present evaluation method can be used for the evaluation of the estimation error and the model predictability. The model was constructed using different numbers of POD or DMD modes for order reduction in the fluid data and different methods of estimating the linear coefficients, and the effects of these conditions on the model performance were quantitatively evaluated. The results illustrates that forward (standard) model works the best with two to ten significant DMD modes selected by sparsity promoting DMD. Graphical abstract