A reduced order variational multiscale approach for turbulent flows
For computational fluid dynamics practitioners, this work offers a ROM framework that balances accuracy and efficiency for turbulent flows, though it is an incremental extension of existing VMS and POD-Galerkin methods.
The paper presents a reduced order modeling framework for turbulent flows using a variational multiscale approach, achieving accurate results on a numerical benchmark.
The purpose of this work is to present a reduced order modeling framework for parametrized turbulent flows with moderately high Reynolds numbers within the variational multiscale (VMS) method. The Reduced Order Models (ROMs) presented in this manuscript are based on a POD-Galerkin approach with a VMS stabilization technique. Two different reduced order models are presented, which differ on the stabilization used during the Galerkin projection. In the first case the VMS stabilization method is used at both the full order and the reduced order level. In the second case, the VMS stabilization is used only at the full order level, while the projection of the standard Navier-Stokes equations is performed instead at the reduced order level. The former method is denoted as consistent ROM, while the latter is named non-consistent ROM, in order to underline the different choices made at the two levels. Particular attention is also devoted to the role of inf-sup stabilization by means of supremizers in ROMs based on a VMS formulation. Finally, the developed methods are tested on a numerical benchmark.