Purpose

The Fluidic Pinball is a freely available toolkit for exploring multiple-input multiple-output flow control.

Simulation with seven different control laws by Rishabh Ishar.
0<t<;50: unforced transient; 50<t<100: aerodynamic boat tailing; 100<t<150: base bleading; 150<t<200: high-frequency forcing; 200<t<250: low-frequency forcing; 250<t<300: Magnus effect in one direction; 300<t<350: Magnus effect in the opposite direction.

Principle investigators of the Fluidic Pinball

Marek Morzynski, Bernd R Noack and Robert Martinuzzi

Publications

• Noack, B.R & Morzynski, M. (2017) "The Fluidic PinBall - a Toolkit for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Flow Control (Version 1.0)". Technical Report 02/2016, Chair of Virtual Engineering, Institute of Combustion Engines and Transport, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
• Morzynski, M. & Noack, B.R. (2016) "Fluidic PinBall - a Toolkit for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Flow Control (Version 0.1)". Technical Report 01/2016, Chair of Virtual Engineering, Institute of Combustion Engines and Transport, Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
• Noack, B. R., Stankiewicz, W., Morzynski & Schmid, P. J. (2016) "Recursive dynamic mode decomposition of a transient cylinder wake." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 809, 843--872. (html)

Team

• Yaoping Hu, Robert Martinzzi, Cedric Raibaudo, Peng Zhong
• Steven Brunton, Eurika Kaiser
• Lionel Mathelin, Bernd Noack, Luc Pastur, Francois Lusseyran
• Krzysztof Kotecki, Marek Morzynski, Witold Stankiewicz

Download

• http://gitlab.com/PinBall
  The pinball code will soon be openly available. Currently it is tested by collaborators.

Links for simulations

• Simulation of different control laws by Marek Morzynski
• Feature extraction of same simulation by Eurika Kaiser

Companion experiment

Christopher Morton (left) and Cedric Raibaudo (right) at the dedicated fluidic pinball experiment at University of Calgary