Identification of parameters in amplitude equations describing coupled wakes

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Abstract: We study the flow behind an array of equally spaced parallel cylinders. A system of Stuart-Landau equations with complex parameters is used to model the oscillating wakes. Our purpose is to identify the 6 scalar parameters which most accurately reproduce the experimental data of Chauve and Le Gal [{Physica D {�f 58}}, pp 407--413, (1992)]. To do so, we perform a computational search for the minimum of a distance calj. We define calj as the sum-square difference of the data and amplitudes reconstructed using coupled equations. The search algorithm is made more efficient through the use of a partially analytical expression for the gradient ablacalJ. Indeed ablacalJ can be obtained by the integration of a dynamical system propagating backwards in time (a backpropagation equation for the Lagrange multipliers). Using the parameters computed via the backpropagation method, the coupled Stuart-Landau equations accurately predicted the experimental data from Chauve and Le Gal over a correlation time of the system. Our method turns out to be quite robust as evidenced by using noisy synthetic data obtained from integrations of the coupled Stuart-Landau equations. However, a difficulty remains with experimental data: in that case the several sets of identified parameters are shown to yield equivalent predictions. This is due to a strong discretization or ``round-off" error arising from the digitalization of the video images in the experiment. This ambiguity in parameter identification has been reproduced with synthetic data subjected to the same kind of discretization.


We study the flow behind an array of equally spaced parallel cylinders. A system of Stuart-Landau equations with complex parameters is used to model the oscillating wakes. Our purpose is to identify a set of six scalar parameters which accurately reproduces the experimental data. To doing so, we perform a computational search for the minimum of a distance \(\mathcal J\). We define \(\mathcal J \) as the sum-square difference between the experimental data and reconstructed data obtained from our model. The differences are computed over a ``training window (a finite-time interval). The initial conditions are obtained from observations at the beginning of the interval. Boundary conditions are zero amplitude oscillations just outside the domain. The search algorithm uses a backpropagation technique for the computation of the descent direction. Using the parameters computed via the backpropagation method, the coupled Stuart-Landau equations accurately predicted the experimental data over several wake oscillations and reproduced the qualitative features of the dynamics.











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