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Main Authors: Wang, Xicheng, Chan, YiMeng, Wong, KinWing, Grishchenko, Dmitry, Kudinov, Pavel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01189
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author Wang, Xicheng
Chan, YiMeng
Wong, KinWing
Grishchenko, Dmitry
Kudinov, Pavel
author_facet Wang, Xicheng
Chan, YiMeng
Wong, KinWing
Grishchenko, Dmitry
Kudinov, Pavel
contents Measurement of the velocity field in thermal-hydraulic experiments is of great importance for phenomena interpretation and code validation. Direct measurement employing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is challenging in some multiphase scenarios where the measurement system would be strongly affected by the phase interaction. In such cases, measurement can only be achieved via sparsely distributed sensors, such as Thermocouples (TCs) and pressure transducers. An example can refer to steam injection into a water pool where the rapid collapse of bubbles and significant temperature gradient make it impossible to obtain the main flow velocity at a large steam flux by PIV. This work investigates the feasibility and capability of utilization of data-driven modeling for flow reconstruction from sparse temperature data. The framework applies (i) a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to encode variables from full space to latent space and (ii) a Fully connected Neural Network (FNN) to approximate sparse measurements to coefficients of latent space. Sensor positioning aiming to identify the optimal sensor location is also discussed. The proposed framework has been tested on a single-phase planar jet and steam condensing jets issued through a multi-hole sparger.
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spellingShingle Data-driven modeling for flow reconstruction from sparse temperature measurements
Wang, Xicheng
Chan, YiMeng
Wong, KinWing
Grishchenko, Dmitry
Kudinov, Pavel
Fluid Dynamics
Measurement of the velocity field in thermal-hydraulic experiments is of great importance for phenomena interpretation and code validation. Direct measurement employing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is challenging in some multiphase scenarios where the measurement system would be strongly affected by the phase interaction. In such cases, measurement can only be achieved via sparsely distributed sensors, such as Thermocouples (TCs) and pressure transducers. An example can refer to steam injection into a water pool where the rapid collapse of bubbles and significant temperature gradient make it impossible to obtain the main flow velocity at a large steam flux by PIV. This work investigates the feasibility and capability of utilization of data-driven modeling for flow reconstruction from sparse temperature data. The framework applies (i) a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to encode variables from full space to latent space and (ii) a Fully connected Neural Network (FNN) to approximate sparse measurements to coefficients of latent space. Sensor positioning aiming to identify the optimal sensor location is also discussed. The proposed framework has been tested on a single-phase planar jet and steam condensing jets issued through a multi-hole sparger.
title Data-driven modeling for flow reconstruction from sparse temperature measurements
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01189