Using a Fuzzy Piecewise Regression Analysis to Predict the Nonlinear Time-Series of Turbulent Flows with Automatic Change-Point Detection.

Research has already shown that turbulent flow consists of some coherent time- and space-organized vortical structures. Some dynamic systems and experimental models are employed to understand the turbulent generation mechanism. However, these approaches still cannot provide a good nonlinear analysis of turbulent time-series. In the real turbulent flow, very complicated nonlinear behaviors, which are affected by many vague factors are present. Based on the nonlinear behavior and the results of from this traditional research, we introduce multivariate statistical analysis of an experimental study to explain practical phenomenon. In this paper, a new approach of fuzzy piecewise regression analysis with automatic change-point detection is proposed to predict the nonlinear time-series of turbulent flows. In order to show the practicality and usefulness of this model, we present an example of predicting the near-wall turbulence time-series as a verifiable model. The results of practical applications show that the proposed method is appropriate and appears to be useful in nonlinear analysis and in fuzzy environments to predict the turbulence time-series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]