Leveraging modal structure similarity for simulation of spatially evolving wakes

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Main Authors: Gola, Divyanshu, Sarkar, Sutanu
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author Gola, Divyanshu
Sarkar, Sutanu
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Sarkar, Sutanu
contents We present a new methodology to enable efficient simulation of high Reynolds number wakes. In this approach, a body-exclusive hybrid simulation at Re = 5 x 10^4 is initialized using inflow fields reconstructed from a lower Reynolds number (Re = 5 x 10^3) body-inclusive simulation. Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (SPOD) is employed to identify dominant coherent structures, and a low-rank reconstruction generates physically meaningful inflow conditions. The resulting simulations accurately recover key large-scale flow, including the vortex shedding mode, and match the spectral content of a fully body-inclusive Re = 5 x 10^4 reference simulation beyond an adjustment region. SPOD eigenspectra confirm agreement across both low and high frequencies. This strategy achieves over an order-of-magnitude reduction in computational cost by avoiding direct high-Re body-inclusive simulations, offering a scalable framework for simulating complex wakes using low Re as well as reduced-order inflow prescriptions.
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spellingShingle Leveraging modal structure similarity for simulation of spatially evolving wakes
Gola, Divyanshu
Sarkar, Sutanu
Fluid Dynamics
We present a new methodology to enable efficient simulation of high Reynolds number wakes. In this approach, a body-exclusive hybrid simulation at Re = 5 x 10^4 is initialized using inflow fields reconstructed from a lower Reynolds number (Re = 5 x 10^3) body-inclusive simulation. Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (SPOD) is employed to identify dominant coherent structures, and a low-rank reconstruction generates physically meaningful inflow conditions. The resulting simulations accurately recover key large-scale flow, including the vortex shedding mode, and match the spectral content of a fully body-inclusive Re = 5 x 10^4 reference simulation beyond an adjustment region. SPOD eigenspectra confirm agreement across both low and high frequencies. This strategy achieves over an order-of-magnitude reduction in computational cost by avoiding direct high-Re body-inclusive simulations, offering a scalable framework for simulating complex wakes using low Re as well as reduced-order inflow prescriptions.
title Leveraging modal structure similarity for simulation of spatially evolving wakes
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24925