Simulation of nonstationary spectral analysis of turbulence in the aorta using a modified autoregressive or maximum entropy (AR/ME) method

A new method of parametric spectral calculation based on the ensemble average technique, which is a natural expansion of the Burg's maximum entropy method, is proposed. This method is applied to a set of numerical simulation data which simulate turbulent velocity fluctuations data measured in the canine aorta with a hot-film anemometer. The autoregressive order of the spectral calculation is chosen by the minimum AIC (Akaike's information criteria) method. It is shown that the proposed method used with the minimum AIC method has a very good performance calculating smooth averaged spectra in the short-time quasisteady spectral analysis of nonstationary processes such as turbulence in the aorta.