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Reduced‐order controllers for control of flow past an airfoil
Author(s) -
Ravindran S. S.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1053
Subject(s) - airfoil , vortex shedding , wake , vortex , reynolds number , flow control (data) , mathematics , control theory (sociology) , flow (mathematics) , controller (irrigation) , angle of attack , computational fluid dynamics , aerodynamics , mechanics , computer science , physics , geometry , turbulence , control (management) , agronomy , artificial intelligence , biology , computer network
Reduced‐order controller design by means of reduced‐order model for control of a wake flow is presented. Reduced‐order model is derived by combining the Galerkin projection with proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) or with other related reduced‐order approaches such as singular value decomposition or reduced‐basis method. In the present investigation, we discuss the applicability of the reduced‐order approaches for fast computation of the optimal control for control of vortex shedding behind a thin airfoil through unsteady blowing on the airfoil surface. Accuracy of the reduced‐order model is quantified by comparing flow fields obtained from the reduced‐order models with those from the full‐order simulations under the same free‐stream conditions. A control of vortex shedding is demonstrated for Reynolds number 100. It is found that downstream directed blowing on the upper surface of the airfoil near the leading edge is more efficient in mitigating flow separation and suppressing the vortex shedding. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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