Investigation of Wall Induced Modifications to Vortex Shedding From a Circular Cylinder

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Angrilli ◽  
S. Bergamaschi ◽  
V. Cossalter
Keyword(s):  
Velocity Field ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Frequency Measurements ◽  
Geometrical Pattern ◽  
Cylinder Diameter ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency

In this paper the influence of a wall on vortex shedding frequency, geometrical pattern, and velocity field are investigated. Frequency measurements were carried out with three circular cylinders at Reynolds numbers of 2860, 3820, and 7640. Mean and fluctuating velocities at several traverses were also measured at Re = 3820 both for an isolated cylinder and for an arrangement with a gap from the wall equal to one cylinder diameter. The modifications of the wake pattern are shown in several figures. It is also shown that the proximity of the wall induces a slight increase of vortex shedding frequency.

A Numerical Study of Geometrical Effects on the Strouhal Number of a Circular Cylinder

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farzan Kazemifar ◽  
Mehdi Molai ◽  
Bahar Firoozabadi ◽  
Goodarz Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Strouhal Number ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Percentage Reduction ◽  
Blade Angle ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency ◽  
Geometrical Effects

In this paper, reducing the Strouhal number of a circular cylinder is studied numerically. Two-dimensional numerical simulations of flow over a normal circular cylinder and various modified circular cylinders are carried out using FLUENT® soft ware. Two small blades are attached to a circular cylinder and the effects of variation of the blades length and the blade angle are studied numerically. The blade angle is chosen 2α = 0°, 30°, 90°, 120° and 150°. The blades length is chosen l/d = 0.125, 0.25, 0.375. Effects of blade angles and blade lengths were studied for both 2α = 0° and 150°. Results show that increasing in blade lengths decreases the Strouhal number. Moreover, as the blade angle was increased from zero to 90°, the percentage reduction in Strouhal number decreased; however, as the blade angle was further increased from 90° to 150°, the percentage reduction in Strouhal number increased. Although the modifications studied here decrease the vortex shedding frequency they make the vortices shed from the cylinder farther and stronger hence increasing the magnitude of the fluctuating forces.

scholarly journals FLOW AROUND MODIFIED CIRCULAR CILYNDERS

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
R. L. Ferreira ◽  
E. D. R. Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Vortex Wake ◽  
Continuous Mode ◽  
Longitudinal Slit ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency ◽  
Hot Film ◽  
The Relationship

The flow around a circular cylinder has awaken the attention of different researchers since the historic Strouhal's work of 1878. Ever since, many experimental and numeric works have been carried out in order to determine the relationship between the vortex shedding frequency and the flow regime. Recently, a number of studies have been developed using several small modifications in circular cylinder. In this work a circular cylinder modified with a longitudinal concave notch, has been tested in order to determine the relationship between the non-dimensional vortex shedding frequency (Strouhal number) and the Reynolds number has been determined to Reynolds up to 600. Additionally a modified circular cylinder with a longitudinal slit also has been tested in order to determine the Strouhal-Reynolds relationship in several attack angle configurations. The experiments have been carried out in a vertical low turbulence hydrodynamic tunnel with 146x146x500 mm of test section operating in continuous mode. Flow visualization by direct liquid dye injection has been utilized in order to produce vortex images. These images have been captured in still chemical photography for different Reynolds numbers. A hot-film probe has been adequately positioned in the vortex wake to determine the vortex shedding frequency and consequently the Strouhal number.

scholarly journals FLOW AROUND MODIFIED CIRCULAR CILYNDERS

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Ferreira ◽  
E. D. R. Vieira
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Strouhal Number ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Continuous Mode ◽  
Longitudinal Slit ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency ◽  
Hot Film ◽  
The Relationship

The flow around a circular cylinder has awaken the attention of different researchers since the historic Strouhal's work of 1878. Ever since, many experimental and numeric works have been carried out in order to determine the relationship between the vortex shedding frequency and the flow regime. Recently, a number of studies have been developed using several small modifications in circular cylinder. In this work a circular cylinder modified with a longitudinal concave notch, has been tested in order to determine the relationship between the non-dimensional vortex shedding frequency (Strouhal number) and the Reynolds number has been determined to Reynolds up to 600. Additionally a modified circular cylinder with a longitudinal slit also has been tested in order to determine the Strouhal-Reynolds relationship in several attack angle configurations. The experiments have been carried out in a vertical low turbulence hydrodynamic tunnel with 146x146x500 mm of test section operating in continuous mode. Flow visualization by direct liquid dye injection has been utilized in order to produce vortex images. These images have been captured in still chemical photography for different Reynolds numbers. A hot-film probe has been adequately positioned in the vortex wake to determine the vortex shedding frequency and consequently the Strouhal number.

Phenomena of vortex shedding and flow interference of three cylinders in different equilateral arrangements

1988 ◽  
Vol 196 ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Lam ◽  
W. C. Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Injection Technique ◽  
Spacing Ratio ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency ◽  
Visualization Experiments ◽  
Flow Interference ◽  
Bistable Flow

This paper describes how the flows around three equal circular cylinders arranged in an equilateral-triangular manner interact at different angles of incidence α and spacing ratios l/d. Some vortex-shedding-frequency data evaluated from flow visualization experiments conducted at Reynolds numbers of 2.1 × 103 and 3.5 × 103, based on the diameter of a single cylinder, using a dye -injection technique, are presented. In order to provide additional insight to the understanding of the flow structure around this particular cylinder array, some photographs indicating the typical flow patterns for various arrangements are also presented. The investigation indicates that the flows interact in a complex fashion for spacing ratios smaller than 2.29 and it also reveals that, at this range of spacing ratios and at α = 0°, bistable flow characteristic exists. Moreover, for l/d approximately smaller than 4.65 there always exists an angle at which the vortex shedding behind an upstream cylinder is suppressed by a nearest downstream cylinder. This angle is found not to remain constant but increases as the spacing ratio increases. For illustration and comparisons, some numerical results obtained from the application of the surface-vorticity method have also been presented.

The Effects of Roughness and Shear on Vortex Shedding Cell Lengths Behind a Circular Cylinder

1982 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Rooney ◽  
R. D. Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Cell Length ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Average Cell ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Shear Parameter ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency

Circular cylinders of aspect ratio L/D=17 were tested in a wind tunnel under a wide range of spanwise upstream velocity shears. The correlation between upstream shear, characterized by a nondimensional shear parameter β, and the spanwise lengths of constant vortex shedding frequency was sought for both smooth and rough cylinders in transitional Reynolds numbers flows. Among the significant conclusions are that the spanwise range in shedding frequencies decreases with increasing roughness, the average constant shedding frequency cell length increases with increasing roughness for constant shear, and the average cell length decreases with increasing upstream shear for constant roughness.

Studying Three-Dimensionality of Vortex Shedding Behind a Circular Cylinder with Mems Sensors

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Tu ◽  
J. J. Miau ◽  
Y. J. Wang ◽  
G. B. Lee ◽  
C. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Aspect Ratio ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Wavelet Analysis ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Splitter Plate ◽  
Mems Sensors ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency

AbstractExperiments were made with 14 MEMS sensors situated along the span of a circular cylinder whose aspect ratio was 5. The signals of the MEMS sensors were sampled simultaneously as flow over the cylinder at Reynolds numbers of 104. The results of Wavelet analysis of the signals indicate that the percentage of time during which strong three-dimensionality of vortex shedding was detected is about 10%.As noted, strong three-dimensionality took place when the fluctuating amplitude of the signals was severely modulated and the vortex shedding frequency reduced appeared abnormally high or low. Further noted was that the addition of a splitter plate of 0.5 or one diameter in length behind the circular cylinder was not able to suppress the three-dimensionality of the flow.

An Experimental Study on the Vertical Flow Past a Finite-Length Horizontal Cylinder at Low Reynolds Numbers

2014 ◽  
Vol 493 ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willy Stevanus ◽  
Yi Jiun Peter Lin
Keyword(s):  
Finite Length ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Vortex Formation ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Horizontal Cylinder ◽  
Vortex Street ◽  
Vertical Flow ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Vortex Shedding Frequency ◽  
Shedding Frequency

The research studies the characteristics of the vertical flow past a finite-length horizontal cylinder at low Reynolds numbers (ReD) from 250 to 1080. The experiments were performed in a vertical closed-loop water tunnel. Flow fields were observed by the particle tracer approach for flow visualization and measured by the Particle Image Velocimetry (P.I.V.) approach for velocity fields. The characteristics of vortex formation in the wake of the finite-length cylinder change at different regions from the tip to the base of it. Near the tip, a pair of vortices in the wake was observed and the size of the vortex increased as the observed section was away from the tip. Around a distance of 3 diameters of the cylinder from its tip, the vortex street in the wake was observed. The characteristics of vortex formation also change with increasing Reynolds numbers. At X/D = -3, a pair of vortices was observed in the wake for ReD = 250, but as the ReD increases the vortex street was observed at the same section. The vortex shedding frequency is analyzed by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Experimental results show that the downwash flow affects the vortex shedding frequency even to 5 diameters of the cylinder from its tip. The interaction between the downwash flow and the Von Kármán vortex street in the wake of the cylinder is presented in this paper.

Influence of slip on the flow past superhydrophobic circular cylinders

2011 ◽  
Vol 680 ◽  
pp. 459-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRANESH MURALIDHAR ◽  
NANGELIE FERRER ◽  
ROBERT DANIELLO ◽  
JONATHAN P. ROTHSTEIN
Keyword(s):  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Superhydrophobic Surfaces ◽  
Separation Point ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Recirculation Region ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Flow Past ◽  
Shedding Frequency

Superhydrophobic surfaces have been shown to produce significant drag reduction for both laminar and turbulent flows of water through large- and small-scale channels. In this paper, a series of experiments were performed which investigated the effect of superhydrophobic-induced slip on the flow past a circular cylinder. In these experiments, circular cylinders were coated with a series of superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated from polydimethylsiloxane with well-defined micron-sized patterns of surface roughness. The presence of the superhydrophobic surface was found to have a significant effect on the vortex shedding dynamics in the wake of the circular cylinder. When compared to a smooth, no-slip cylinder, cylinders coated with superhydrophobic surfaces were found to delay the onset of vortex shedding and increase the length of the recirculation region in the wake of the cylinder. For superhydrophobic surfaces with ridges aligned in the flow direction, the separation point was found to move further upstream towards the front stagnation point of the cylinder and the vortex shedding frequency was found to increase. For superhydrophobic surfaces with ridges running normal to the flow direction, the separation point and shedding frequency trends were reversed. Thus, in this paper we demonstrate that vortex shedding dynamics is very sensitive to changes of feature spacing, size and orientation along superhydrophobic surfaces.

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