Identification of coherent structures in the flow past a NACA0012 airfoil via proper orthogonal decomposition

Proper orthogonal decomposition, POD, is employed to identify coherent structures in the turbulent flow past a NACA0012 airfoil. An analysis of different POD techniques is presented including the standard snapshot method, the spectral POD (SPOD) method, and a Fourier-POD implementation combined with the SPOD. The latter technique is viable once the present turbulent flow has a homogeneous direction along the airfoil span. An assessment of different vector norms and filter functions employed in the POD reconstruction is presented. The evaluation of the several POD techniques allows the investigation of the physics of the current turbulent flow including the observation of coherent structures and their relation to the airfoil noise generation mechanisms. The SPOD technique is applied assuming periodic and non-periodic temporal signals in the construction of the covariance matrix. Although it slightly alters the spectrum of the POD singular values, the periodic SPOD considerably reduces the noise observed in...

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