Analysis of synthetic jet PIV experiment based on dynamic mode decomposition

Abstract

Synthetic Jet Actuator (SJA) works cyclically with the directionally transportation of fluid near the exit, and the paper presents the performance of a loudspeaker driven SJA in static flow field. Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (TR-PIV) system is used to measure the flow field characteristics near the SJA slot exit with input voltage changing, and the flow field snapshots obtained by TR-PIV are modality analyzed by Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) method. The PIV experiments show that by varying input voltage at fixed oscillating frequency, the loudspeaker diaphragm vibration displacement is the parameter that affects the jet velocity and the performance of the SJA. The traveling vortex vanishes at high voltage due to the interaction between vortex structures and the synthetic main jet. In DMD method, the first three-order modes can characterize the main information of the original flow field with reverting the flow field snapshot sequence. It indicates that the DMD method is applicable in the SJA flow field research and the reduced order model can effectively simplify the analysis of flow field.