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Passivity-based output-feedback control of turbulent channel flow

Passivity-based output-feedback control of turbulent channel flow
Passivity-based output-feedback control of turbulent channel flow
This paper describes a robust linear time-invariant output-feedback control strategy to reduce turbulent fluctuations, and therefore skin-friction drag, in wall-bounded turbulent fluid flows, that nonetheless gives performance guarantees in the nonlinear turbulent regime. The novel strategy is effective in reducing the supply of available energy to feed the turbulent fluctuations, expressed as reducing a bound on the supply rate to a quadratic storage function. The nonlinearity present in the equations that govern the dynamics of the flow is known to be passive and can be considered as a feedback forcing to the linearised dynamics (a Lur’e decomposition). Therefore, one is only required to control the linear dynamics in order to make the system close to passive. The ten most energy-producing spatial modes of a turbulent channel flow were identified. Passivity-based controllers were then generated to control these modes. The controllers require measurements of streamwise and spanwise wall-shear stress, and they actuate via wall transpiration. Nonlinear direct numerical simulations demonstrated that these controllers were capable of significantly reducing the turbulent energy and skin-friction drag of the flow.
0005-1098
348-355
Heins, Peter H.
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Jones, Bryn Ll.
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Sharma, Ati S.
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Heins, Peter H.
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Jones, Bryn Ll.
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Sharma, Ati S.
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Heins, Peter H., Jones, Bryn Ll. and Sharma, Ati S. (2016) Passivity-based output-feedback control of turbulent channel flow. Automatica, 69, 348-355. (doi:10.1016/j.automatica.2016.03.007).

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This paper describes a robust linear time-invariant output-feedback control strategy to reduce turbulent fluctuations, and therefore skin-friction drag, in wall-bounded turbulent fluid flows, that nonetheless gives performance guarantees in the nonlinear turbulent regime. The novel strategy is effective in reducing the supply of available energy to feed the turbulent fluctuations, expressed as reducing a bound on the supply rate to a quadratic storage function. The nonlinearity present in the equations that govern the dynamics of the flow is known to be passive and can be considered as a feedback forcing to the linearised dynamics (a Lur’e decomposition). Therefore, one is only required to control the linear dynamics in order to make the system close to passive. The ten most energy-producing spatial modes of a turbulent channel flow were identified. Passivity-based controllers were then generated to control these modes. The controllers require measurements of streamwise and spanwise wall-shear stress, and they actuate via wall transpiration. Nonlinear direct numerical simulations demonstrated that these controllers were capable of significantly reducing the turbulent energy and skin-friction drag of the flow.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 February 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 March 2016
Published date: July 2016
Organisations: Aeronautics, Astronautics & Comp. Eng

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Local EPrints ID: 390657
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/390657
ISSN: 0005-1098
PURE UUID: f52684ec-6c29-42fe-a15e-1d292e882d6a
ORCID for Ati S. Sharma: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7170-1627

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Date deposited: 06 Apr 2016 10:16
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:46

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Author: Peter H. Heins
Author: Bryn Ll. Jones
Author: Ati S. Sharma ORCID iD

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