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Predicting the response of turbulent channel flow to varying-phase opposition control: Resolvent analysis as a tool for flow control design

Simon S. Toedtli1,*, Mitul Luhar2, and Beverley J. McKeon1

  • 1Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

  • *stoedtli@caltech.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 073905 – Published 31 July, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.073905

Abstract

The present study evaluates the capabilities of a low-order flow model based on the resolvent analysis of McKeon and Sharma [B. J. McKeon and A. S. Sharma, J. Fluid Mech. 658, 336 (2010)] for the purpose of controller design for drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulent flows. To this end, we first show that the model is able to approximate the change in mean wall shear stress, which is commonly used as measure for drag reduction. We also derive an analytical expression that decomposes the drag reduction in internal flows into terms that can be predicted directly by the model and terms that allow for quantification of model error if high-fidelity data are available. We then show by example of varying-phase opposition control in a low-Reynolds-number turbulent channel flow that the drag reduction predicted by the resolvent model captures the trend observed in direct numerical simulation (DNS) over a wide range of controller parameters. The DNS results confirm the resolvent model prediction that the attainable drag reduction strongly depends on the relative phase between sensor measurement and actuator response, which raises interesting flow physics questions for future studies. The good agreement between the resolvent model and DNS further reveals that resolvent analysis, which at its heart is a linear technique, is able to approximate the response of the full nonlinear system to control. We also show that in order to make accurate predictions the model only needs to resolve a small subset of the DNS wave numbers and that the controlled resolvent modes obey the Reynolds-number scaling laws of the uncontrolled resolvent operator derived by Moarref et al. [R. Moarref et al., J. Fluid Mech. 734, 275 (2013)]. As a consequence, our results suggest that resolvent analysis can provide a suitable flow model to design feedback flow control schemes for the purpose of drag reduction in incompressible wall-bounded turbulent flows even at technologically relevant Reynolds numbers.

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 073905– Published 31 July, 2019
  • Received 3 November 2018
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