Low order modeling of dynamic stall using vortex particle method and dynamic mode decomposition

Low order modelings are performed in this paper, including iterative Brinkman penalized vortex method (IBVM) and data-driven dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) for dynamic stall study of symmetric airfoil. The data are extracted from IBVM as input for flow field reconstruction using combinations of DMD dominant modes, representing extracted flow features. The primary mode together with its harmonics, and the mean mode are termed to be dominant for the airfoil wake duplication at fixed angles of attack ([Formula: see text]) ranging from [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text]. For the dynamic stall duplication, at small and large pitching amplitudes, the nearfield and farfield vorticty contours from the DMD generally agree well with those from the IBVM. In addition, the lift coefficient from the DMD collapses well with that from the IBVM and the experiment.