Studying oscillation death in two-dimensional cylinder-airfoil interactions with synchronization-theoretic autoencoder
Abstract
Body-body interactions have long been investigated to leverage the performance of various fluid-based machines. This study analyzes the flow interaction between a cylinder and a NACA0012 airfoil using direct numerical simulation and machine learning. We consider a two-dimensional incompressible flow at Reynolds number 100, where the airfoil is positioned in the wake of a cylinder. By sweeping the parameter space, composed of the distance between the cylinder and the airfoil Δx, the relative height Δy, and the angle of attack of the airfoil α, four characteristic vortex-shedding regimes are observed. This study particularly focuses on suppressed vortex shedding at a certain arrangement as oscillation death in coupled oscillators, with the theoretical prediction of flow stability on a machine-learned low-order coordinate. Independent flows around each body are regarded as a system that exhibits isolated periodic vortex shedding at infinite distance, and interactions appear at smaller distances. We employ a synchronization-theoretic autoencoder to derive models for two coupled oscillators from an aerodynamic coefficient. The proposed approach, which enables the assessment of system stability and the prediction of vortical interaction behavior, may pave the way for the analysis of unsteady body-body interactions from the data-driven and synchronization perspectives.
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BibTeX
@misc{ushida2026studying,
title = {{Studying oscillation death in two-dimensional cylinder-airfoil interactions with synchronization-theoretic autoencoder}},
author = {Yuta Ushida and Daiki Beppu and Yuzuru Kato and Kai Fukami},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.05762},
eprint = {2610.05762},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05762},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Studying oscillation death in two-dimensional cylinder-airfoil interactions with synchronization-theoretic autoencoder
AU - Yuta Ushida
AU - Daiki Beppu
AU - Yuzuru Kato
AU - Kai Fukami
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.05762
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05762
AB - Body-body interactions have long been investigated to leverage the performance of various fluid-based machines. This study analyzes the flow interaction between a cylinder and a NACA0012 airfoil using direct numerical simulation and machine learning. We consider a two-dimensional incompressible flow at Reynolds number 100, where the airfoil is positioned in the wake of a cylinder. By sweeping the parameter space, composed of the distance between the cylinder and the airfoil Δx, the relative height Δy, and the angle of attack of the airfoil α, four characteristic vortex-shedding regimes are observed. This study particularly focuses on suppressed vortex shedding at a certain arrangement as oscillation death in coupled oscillators, with the theoretical prediction of flow stability on a machine-learned low-order coordinate. Independent flows around each body are regarded as a system that exhibits isolated periodic vortex shedding at infinite distance, and interactions appear at smaller distances. We employ a synchronization-theoretic autoencoder to derive models for two coupled oscillators from an aerodynamic coefficient. The proposed approach, which enables the assessment of system stability and the prediction of vortical interaction behavior, may pave the way for the analysis of unsteady body-body interactions from the data-driven and synchronization perspectives.
ER -