USING PROPER ORTHOGONAL DECOMPOSITION AND DYNAMIC MODE DECOMPOSITION FOR COMPARING CFD RESULTS AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS

摘要

A method for the quantitative comparison of numerical and/or experimental data of unsteady aerodynamics around static and oscillating bodies is introduced. It is based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to extract the dominant structures of the unsteady flow. The proposed method is applied to spatio-temporal data for the flow around a 4:1 rectangular cylinder. Experimental data are obtained from wind tunnel testing and two dimensional Time-resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (Tr-PIV) measurements, while unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (uRANS) are used to compute numerical results. It is demonstrated that the two approaches are complementary and represent a powerful tool that enables the analysis and the quantitative comparison of the main spatial (POD) and temporal (DMD) characteristics of unsteady aerodynamic data.