POD-based reduced order model for flows induced by rigid solids in forced rotation

• Published in: Journal of Fluids and Structures 2019-11, Vol.91
• Main Authors: Falaize, Antoine, Liberge, Erwan, Hamdouni, Aziz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Engineering Sciences; Fluids mechanics; Mechanics; Solid mechanics
• ISSN: 0889-9746; 1095-8622

This paper deals with the construction of reduced order models (ROMs) for the simulation of the interaction between a fluid and a rigid solid with imposed rotation velocity. The approach is a follows. First, we derive a monolithic description of the fluid/structure interaction by extending the Navier-Stokes equations from the fluid domain to the solid (rotor) domain similarly to the fictitious-domain approach. Second, we build a ROM by a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) of the resulting multi-phases flow. This method consists in (i) constructing an optimal albeit empirical spatial basis for a very small sub-space of the solution space, and (ii) projecting the governing equations on this reduced basis. Third, we cope with the reconstruction of the high-dimensional velocity field needed to evaluate the imposed velocity constraint by a POD of the solid membership function. Fourth, we use state of the art method to interpolate between available POD bases to build the proposed POD-ROM for a range of parameters values. The proposed method is applied to an academic configuration and proves efficient in the reconstruction of the velocity in both the fluid and solid domains while substantially reducing the computational cost.