“…There are mainly two methods to obtain the phase sensitivity function [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]: one is the direct method using impulsive perturbation applied to the system, and the other is the adjoint method using the adjoint equations derived from the governing equations of the system. The direct method has been used to characterize and control the periodic vortex shedding around cylinders [33,34,35,36,37] and airfoil [36]. The lock-on characteristics of vortex shedding for a circular cylinder to various periodic perturbations such as, periodic external forcing [33,34], periodic vibrations of cylinder [35] and fluid-structure interactions [37] are demonstrated via phase reduction using the direct method.…”