Volume 42, Issue 8 pp. 1709-1716
Research Article

Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Statistical Analysis of 2D Confined Impinging Jets Chaotic Flow

Pedro Torres

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Pedro Torres

Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

The University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science, Oxford Road, M13 9PL Manchester, UK

Correspondence: Pedro Torres ([email protected]), The University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; Ricardo J. Santos ([email protected]), Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, PortugalSearch for more papers by this author
Nelson D. Goncalves

Nelson D. Goncalves

Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

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Claudio P. Fonte

Claudio P. Fonte

The University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science, Oxford Road, M13 9PL Manchester, UK

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Madalena M. Dias

Madalena M. Dias

Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

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José Carlos B. Lopes

José Carlos B. Lopes

Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

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Alain Liné

Alain Liné

Université de Toulouse, LISBP, INSA, INRA, CNRS, Toulouse, France

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Ricardo J. Santos

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Ricardo J. Santos

Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Correspondence: Pedro Torres ([email protected]), The University of Manchester, School of Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; Ricardo J. Santos ([email protected]), Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Department of Chemical Engineering, Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, PortugalSearch for more papers by this author
First published: 07 May 2019
Citations: 5

Abstract

Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is shown to be a statistical operation that identifies the main characteristics of chaotic flows and separates them into a few modes. The dynamic chaotic flow is obtained from two-dimensional (2D) computational fluid dynamics simulations, for different Reynolds numbers, of a confined impinging jets mixer. POD enables reconstruction of the dynamic flow from a few modes that are related to coherent flow structures. The POD flow reconstruction enables a large compression of the flow data set. The decomposition of the flow field into orthogonal modes related to coherent structures provides direct insight into the mixing dynamics and scales which are not accessible from flow dynamics statistic quantities, which were introduced in the context of turbulence and are here applied to chaotic flow.

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