Assimilation Experiment of Lidar Measurements for Wake Turbulence

Abstract

Numerical simulation of wake turbulence was performed by integrating the lidar measurements using four-dimensional variational method. A bogus vortex technique was adopted to ensure the existence of wake vortices in the flow field. The validation of the method was performed by an idealized test case using virtual lidar measurement which was produced by the reference simulation of a vortex pair. The results of the validation showed the convergence of a vortex parameter such as a circulation to the parameter of reference simulation case. It was also confirmed that the velocity distribution on a measurement plane agreed with reference one.

Keywords

• wake turbulence
• lidar
• four-dimensional variational method