Reactive control of the dynamics of a fully turbulent wake using real-time PIV

Abstract

In this study we focus on the control of the dynamics of 3D turbulent wake downstream a square-back Ahmed body ($R{e}_H=3.9\times 10^5$). The peculiar dynamics of such a wake are first characterized through the trajectories of the pressure barycenter over the rear part of the model as well as the recirculation barycenter in the wake. In particular it is shown that these dynamics allow the definition of three different states: the two so-called reflectional symmetry-breaking (RSB) modes and the transient symmetric (TS) mode. It was shown recently that the time-fluctuations of the pressure barycenter could be characterized as a weak chaotic system with a well-defined attractor. We show that the dynamics of the bimodal wake can then be forced into a stable asymmetric or symmetric state in open loop control, using tangential continuous or pulsed blowing in three different regions along the upper edge of the rear part of the model. Finally, a simple closed-loop opposition control, based on real-time identification of the wake barycenter in the PIV fields, is used to force the chaotic dynamics of the wake into a regular oscillatory motion at a well-controlled frequency. Depending on the actuation parameters, the wake dynamics can also be switched from bimodal to a new multimodal behavior. We show that this new mode also exhibits a peculiar dynamics with an up-down instead of left-right chaotic oscillations. Interestingly, the recirculation area (size of the recirculation bubble) is much more reduced for the closed-loop experiments when the jets are pulsed rather than continuous. For the pulsed jets, the reduction is also increased when the proper frequency is chosen.

arXiv commentPre-print version of the article published in Experiments in Fluids (2019) 60: 124. Updated version of the previous arXiv submission. 22 pages, 22 figures

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