A spatiotemporal decomposition of a fully inhomogeneous turbulent flow field (Q1310560)

For a spatiotemporal process, in general, the quality of the results of the POD depends on the balance between the amount of information collected from space (discrete points in space) and from time (the number of samplings in time). The temporal modes cannot be expected to be Fourier modes if they are evaluated from small subdomains, using data sets from numerical simulations in statistically inhomogeneous stationary flows. For an example of the numerical simulation, the authors, based on the space-time duality of POD, employ a data set from large eddy simulation of shear flow with high Reynolds number over a cube mounted on the bottom of a plate channel. The simulation shows that the first spatiotemporal mode was identified with the mean flow; the second spatiotemporal mode is dominated by the alternating and staggering vortex shedding from the vertical side edge of the cube. The result also reveals that the Fourier analysis of the second temporal mode leads to a Strouhal number of \(S=0.125\), corresponding to the measured Strouhal number for the vortex shedding, and the third and fourth spatiotemporal modes are connected with the rolls created at the horizontal leading edge of the cube. So, the authors claim that the space-time duality POD is rather realistic in the sense that the first four spatiotemporal modes can actually be observed in the real shear flow.