On the Wake Dynamics of an Oscillating Cylinder via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

Drag Minimization of the Cylinder Wake by Trust-Region Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

In this paper we investigate the optimal control approach for the active control of the circular cylinder wake flow considered in the laminar regime (Re = 200). The objective is the minimization of the mean total drag where the control function is the time harmonic angular velocity of the rotating cylinder. When the Navier-Stokes equations are used as state equations, the discretization of the ...

Velocity Characteristics in the Wake of an Oscillating Cylinder

This thesis describes the results of over 2000 experimental runs conduced at the MIT Ship Model Testing Tank. A rake of constant temperature anemometers is employed to study the spanwise velocity correlation and the vertical velocity profile downstream of a vibrating cylinder. Experiments involve either free vibration implemented through a force feedback system or forced sinusoidal motion. All ...

Proper orthogonal decomposition for parameter estimation in oscillating biological networks

Model Reduction via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

An introduction to the proper orthogonal decomposition

A tutorial is presented on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), which finds applications in computationally processing large amounts of high-dimensional data with the aim of obtaining low-dimensional descriptions that capture much of the phenomena of interest. The discrete version of the POD, which is the singular value decomposition (SVD) of matrices, is described in some detail. The con...