62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 54, Number 19
Sunday–Tuesday, November 22–24, 2009;
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Session ED: Flow Control III
4:15 PM–6:25 PM,
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Room: 101D
Chair: Tim Colonius, California Institute of Technology
Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.DFD.ED.6
Abstract: ED.00006 : Global Model Reduction for Fluid-Structure Interaction in Flapping Flexible Wings*
5:20 PM–5:33 PM
Authors:
Mingjun Wei
(New Mexico State University)
Tao Yang
(New Mexico State University)
Reduced-order models (ROMs) for fully-coupled fluid-structure
interaction problems are desired in many applications (e.g.
design of flapping-wing Micro Air Vehicles). Traditional approach
is to build ROMs individually for fluid and solid and couple them
through the interface. In this work, we suggest an approach to
apply model reduction globally on a uniform description of fluid
and solid in Eulerian framework. The idea has been made possible
by a set of combined fluid-structue equations, where solid
properties are presented as extra terms to Navier-Stokes
equations. Then, typical Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
(POD)/Galerkin projection can be used for model reduction as in
most fluid-only problems, with special care of the extra
``solid'' terms. In the example, we show that one can capture
most energy by only a few POD modes. More importantly, the
leading POD modes show the signatures of both fluid flow and
solid structure.
*The simulation is supported by Army High Performance Computing Research Center.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2009.DFD.ED.6