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68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Volume 60, Number 21

Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2015;

Boston, Massachusetts

Session H22: Turbulent Boundary Layers III

10:35 AM–12:45 PM,

Monday, November 23, 2015

Room: 210

Chair: Michele Guala, University of Minnesota

Abstract ID: BAPS.2015.DFD.H22.4

Abstract: H22.00004 : Spatio-temporal frequency responses of turbulent shear flows

11:14 AM–11:27 AM

Authors:

Armin Zare

(University of Minnesota - Minneapolis)

Mihailo Jovanovic

(University of Minnesota - Minneapolis)

Tryphon Georgiou

(University of Minnesota - Minneapolis)

Low-dimensional approximations of the Navier-Stokes equations are commonly

used for the purpose of analysis and control of turbulent flows. In

particular, stochastically-forced linearized models can capture statistical

signatures observed in experiments and numerical simulations. In such models

the dynamics of forcing play a critical role. It has been recently

recognized that white-in-time forcing cannot explain the observed

second-order statistics. In contrast, such statistics can be exactly matched

with colored-in-time forcing. In order to account for partially-available

second-order statistics of turbulent flows, we identify the dynamics of

forcing using a convex-optimization procedure. We also provide a

constructive method for designing linear filters that generate the

colored-in-time forcing and show that our forcing models can be interpreted

as perturbations to the original linearized dynamics subject to

white-in-time stochastic excitation. Finally, we utilize spatio-temporal

frequency response analysis to show that our models not only capture

turbulent flow statistics but also identify energetically significant flow

structures and provide reasonable estimation of the convection velocity of

the individual modes.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2015.DFD.H22.4