Towards the foundation of a global modes concept

Rodríguez Álvarez, Daniel and Tumin, A. and Theofilis, Vassilios (2011). Towards the foundation of a global modes concept. In: "6th AIAA THeoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference", 27/06/2011 - 30/06/2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. pp..

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Title: Towards the foundation of a global modes concept
Author/s:
  • Rodríguez Álvarez, Daniel
  • Tumin, A.
  • Theofilis, Vassilios
Item Type: Presentation at Congress or Conference (Article)
Event Title: 6th AIAA THeoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference
Event Dates: 27/06/2011 - 30/06/2011
Event Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Title of Book: Proceedings of 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference
Date: 2011
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Faculty: E.T.S.I. Aeronáuticos (UPM)
Department: Motopropulsión y Termofluidodinámica [hasta 2014]
Creative Commons Licenses: Recognition - No derivative works - Non commercial

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Abstract

A contribution is presented, intended to provide theoretical foundations for the ongoing efforts to employ global instability theory for the analysis of the classic boundary-layer flow, and address the associated issue of appropriate inflow/outflow boundary conditions to close the PDE-based global eigenvalue problem in open flows. Starting from a theoretically clean and numerically simple application, in which results are also known analytically and thus serve as a guidance for the assessment of the performance of the numerical methods employed herein, a sequence of issues is systematically built into the target application, until we arrive at one representative of open systems whose instability is presently addressed by global linear theory applied to open flows, the latter application being neither tractable theoretically nor straightforward to solve by numerical means. Experience gained along the way is documented. It regards quantification of the depar- ture of the numerical solution from the analytical one in the simple problem, the generation of numerical boundary layers at artificially truncated boundaries, no matter how far the latter are placed from the region of highest flow gradients and, ultimately the impracti- cally large number of (direct and adjoint) modes necessary to project an arbitrary initial perturbation and follow its temporal evolution by a global analysis approach, a finding which may question the purported robustness reported in the literature of the recovery of optimal perturbations as part of global analyses yielding under-resolved eigenspectra.

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Item ID: 13075
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/13075/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:13075
Deposited by: Memoria Investigacion
Deposited on: 26 Feb 2013 08:03
Last Modified: 22 Sep 2014 10:57
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