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Spatial Temporal Analysis of Fieldwise Flow in Microvasculature
Published on: November 18, 2019
Estimating flow fields with reduced order models
Kamil David Sommer1, Lucas Reineking1, Yogesh Parry Ravichandran2
1Automatic Control and Systems Theory, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
Abstract:
The estimation of fluid flows inside a centrifugal pump in realtime is a challenging task that cannot be achieved with long-established methods like CFD due to their computational demands. We use a projection-based reduced order model (ROM) instead. Based on this ROM, a realtime observer can be devised that estimates the temporally and spatially resolved velocity and pressure fields inside the pump. The entire fluid-solid domain is treated as a fluid in order to be able to consider moving rigid bodies in the reduction method. A greedy algorithm is introduced for finding suitable and as few measurement locations as possible. Robust observability is ensured with an extended Kalman filter, which is based on a time-variant observability matrix obtained from the nonlinear velocity ROM. We present the results of the velocity and pressure ROMs based on a unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes CFD simulation of a 2D centrifugal pump, as well as the results for the extended Kalman filter.
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