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Application of the DMD Approach to High Reynolds Number Flow Over an Idealized Ground Vehicle

Version 1 : Received: 27 April 2023 / Approved: 28 April 2023 / Online: 28 April 2023 (07:57:31 CEST)

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Misar, A.; Tison, N.A.; Korivi, V.M.; Uddin, M. Application of the DMD Approach to High-Reynolds-Number Flow over an Idealized Ground Vehicle. Vehicles 2023, 5, 656-681. Misar, A.; Tison, N.A.; Korivi, V.M.; Uddin, M. Application of the DMD Approach to High-Reynolds-Number Flow over an Idealized Ground Vehicle. Vehicles 2023, 5, 656-681.

Abstract

This paper attempts to develop a Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) based Reduced Order Model (ROMs) which can quickly but accurately predict the forces and moments experienced by a road vehicle such that they be used by an on-board controller to determine the vehicle's trajectory. DMD can linearize a large dataset of high-dimensional measurements by decomposing them into low-dimensional coherent structures and associated time-dynamics. This ROM then also can be applied to predict the future state of the fluid flow. Existing literature on DMD is limited to low Reynolds number applications. This paper presents DMD analyses of the flow around an idealized road vehicle, called the Ahmed body, at a Reynolds number of 2.7E6. The high dimensional dataset used in this paper was collected from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation performed using Menter's shear stress transport (SST) turbulence model within the context of Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulations (IDDES). The DMD algorithm, as available in literature, was found to suffer nonphysical dampening of the medium-to-high frequency modes. Enhancements to the existing algorithm were explored, and a modified DMD approach is presented in this paper which includes: (a) a requirement of higher sampling rate to obtain higher resolution of data, and (b) a custom filtration process to remove spurious modes. The modified DMD algorithm thus developed was applied to the high Reynolds number, separation dominated flow past the idealized ground vehicle. The effectiveness of the modified algorithm was tested by comparing future predictions of force and moment coefficients as predicted by the DMD-based ROM to the reference CFD simulation data, and found to offer significant improvement.

Keywords

Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD); Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Reduced Order Method (ROM); Ahmed Body; Turbulent Flows; High Reynolds Number Flows; Improved Delayed Detached Eddy Simulations (IDDES); Road Vehicle Aerodynamics

Subject

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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