A data-driven approach to guide supersonic impinging jet control

TL;DR

This paper introduces a data-driven method using dynamic mode decomposition to identify effective control strategies for supersonic impinging jets, enabling rapid assessment and optimization of flow control in complex, unsteady conditions.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel DMD-based reduced order model that predicts flow response to control inputs in supersonic jets, differing from traditional steady-state linearization techniques.

Findings

Effective control strategies identified for supersonic jets.

Rapid assessment of flow sensitivities achieved.

Validation through nonlinear simulations and experiments.

Abstract

A data-driven framework using snapshots of an uncontrolled flow is proposed to identify, and subsequently demonstrate, effective control strategies for different objectives in supersonic impinging jets. The approach, based on a dynamic mode decomposition reduced order model (DMD-ROM), determines forcing receptivity in an economical manner by projecting flow and actuator-specific forcing snapshots onto a reduced subspace and then evolving the results forward in time. Since it effectively determines a linear response around the unsteady flow in the time-domain, the method differs materially from typical techniques that use steady basic states, such as stability or input-output approaches that employ linearized Navier-Stokes operators in the frequency-domain. The method naturally accounts for factors inherent to the snapshot basis, including configuration complexity and flow parameters such as Reynolds number. Furthermore, gain metrics calculated in the reduced subspace facilitate rapid assessments of flow sensitivities to a wide range of forcing parameters, from which optimal actuator inputs may be selected and results confirmed in scale-resolved simulations or experiments. The DMD-ROM approach is demonstrated from two different perspectives. The first concerns asymptotic feedback resonance, where the effects of harmonic pressure forcing are estimated and verified with nonlinear simulations using a blowing-suction actuator. The second examines time-local behavior within critical feedback events, where the phase of actuation becomes important. For this, a conditional space-time mode is used to identify the optimal forcing phase that minimizes convective instability initiation within the resonance cycle.