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67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics

Volume 59, Number 20

Sunday–Tuesday, November 23–25, 2014;

San Francisco, California

Session D27: Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows

2:15 PM–4:25 PM,

Sunday, November 23, 2014

Room: 2009

Chair: Xiaohua Wu, The Royal Military College of Canada

Abstract ID: BAPS.2014.DFD.D27.8

Abstract: D27.00008 : Completion of partially known second-order statistics of turbulent flows

3:46 PM–3:59 PM

Authors:

Armin Zare

(University of Minnesota)

Mihailo Jovanovic

(University of Minnesota)

Tryphon Georgiou

(University of Minnesota)

Second-order statistics of turbulent flows can be obtained either

experimentally or via direct numerical simulations. The statistics are

relevant in understanding fundamentals of flow physics and for the

development of low-complexity turbulence models. For example, such

models can be used for control design in order to suppress or promote

turbulence. Due to experimental or numerical limitations it is often

the case that only partial flow statistics are reliably known. In

other words, only certain correlations between a limited number of

flow field components are available. Thus, it is of interest to

complete the statistical signature of the flow field in a way that is

consistent with the known dynamics. Our approach to this inverse

problem relies on a model governed by stochastically forced linearized

Navier-Stokes equations. In this, the statistics of forcing are

unknown and sought to explain available velocity correlations.

Identifying suitable stochastic forcing allows us to complete the

correlation data of the velocity field. While the system dynamics

impose a linear constraint on the admissible correlations, such an

inverse problem admits many solutions. We use nuclear norm

minimization to obtain correlation structures of low complexity. This

complexity translates into dimensionality of filters that can be used

to generate the identified forcing statistics. The ability of our

approach to reproduce statistical features of a turbulent channel flow is

demonstrated using stochastic simulations of the linearized dynamics.

To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2014.DFD.D27.8