Investigation on the Reduced-Order Model for the Hydrofoil of the Blended-Wing-Body Underwater Glider Flow Control with Steady-Stream Suction and Jets Based on the POD Method

Abstract

The rapid acquisition of flow field characterization information is crucial for closed-loop active flow control. The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method is a widely used flow field downscaling modeling method to obtain flow characteristics effectively. Based on the POD method, a flow field reduced-order model (ROM) is constructed in this paper for the flow field control of a hydrofoil of a blended-wing-body underwater glider (BWB-UG) with stabilized suction and blowing forces. Compared with the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation, the computational time required to predict the target flow field using the established POD-ROM is only about 0.1 s, which is significantly less than the CFD simulation time. The average relative error of the predicted surface pressure is not more than 6.9%. These results confirm the accuracy and efficiency of the POD-ROM in reconstructing flow characteristics. The timeliness problem of fast flow field prediction in BWB-UG active flow control is solved by establishing a fast prediction model in an innovative way.

Keywords

• proper orthogonal decomposition
• active flow control
• reduced-order model