Commande performante et robuste d'un écoulement de cavité

The cavity flow represents a preferred configuration to study the self-oscillating impingement flows, which constitute an intense noise source in various applications (rail, aviation, etc.). Several studies have been conducted in order to mitigate these oscillations by open or closed-loop control strategies. A reminder of undertaken studies in recent years is presented as well as the encountered difficulties to control of such a device. The main difficulty to control such flows is that their state results from the nonlinear saturation of instabilities by developing on the steady base flow (stable limit cycle against unstable fixed point). The identification of a model is not easy in such a situation. Indeed, the empirical identification based on the frequency response can't be applied, unless a controller stabilizing the unstable fixed point is previously given, in order to preserve the superposition principle during the identification.Our study is mainly based on a closed-loop control because it brings a better energetic gain. We show that a simple time-delayed feedback control is able to stabilize the base flow and robust to changes in cavity configuration. To extract the responsible dynamics of the oscillations appearance in the shear layer, ERA (Eigensystem Realization Algorithm) identification technique is used in closed-loop. The model identifies the unstable modes of the linear dynamics of the cavity as those actually responsible for the oscillation frequencies of the saturated regime. An optimal controller was synthesized from this dynamics. This controller reveals robust to parametric variations of the model.