Modal decomposition of flow behind a harmonically oscillating circular cylinder
摘要
We examine the flow behavior around a transversely oscillating circular cylinder using various dimensionality reduction techniques. Specifically, Fourier analysis, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD), and multi-resolution DMD (mrDMD) are employed. Numerical simulations are performed at a cylinder-diameter-based Reynolds number of 500 for a range of oscillation displacement amplitudes. The flow field exhibits well-documented wake patterns, such as 2S, 2P, and P+S, as well as intermittent transitions between these patterns at varying amplitudes. Dimensionality reduction becomes particularly effective when the force spectrum exhibits a dominant tonal character. Under these circumstances, the selection of the modal decomposition technique has minimal impact–all approaches yield comparable mode shapes for the dominant modes. However, when the flow undergoes intermittent pattern switching (e.g., between 2P and 2S), only mrDMD is able to automatically distinguish them as distinct modes. Nonetheless, if the temporal windows over which mode switching occurs are specified a priori, POD, DMD, and DFT are also successful.