Cross-Wire Measurements in the Wake of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers With and Without Acoustic Excitation

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhiy Yarusevych ◽  
Pierre E. Sullivan ◽  
John G. Kawall
Keyword(s):  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Surface Flow ◽  
Wake Vortex ◽  
Acoustic Excitation ◽  
Separation Region ◽  
Wind Tunnel Experiments ◽  
Wake Structure ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Cross Wire

The wake structure and vortex shedding characteristics of a NACA 0025 airfoil were studied experimentally. Wind tunnel experiments were carried out for three Reynolds numbers and three angles of attack by means of cross-wire measurements, spectral analysis and complementary surface flow visualization. Evidence of wake vortex shedding and flow separation was obtained for most of the cases examined, and dependence of these phenomena on Reynolds number and angle of attack was found. External acoustic excitation at a particular frequency was found to eliminate or reduce the separation region and decrease the airfoil wake. Moreover, the results show that the acoustic excitation has a significant effect on vortex shedding and can improve airfoil performance, i.e. produce an increase of the lift and/or decrease of the drag.

Vortex shedding from circular cylinders at low Reynolds numbers

1971 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 749-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gaster
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Circular Cross Section ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Similar Type ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Wake Structure ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Cell Shedding

Experiments on slightly tapered models of circular cross-section have shown that the vortex wake structure exists in a number of discrete cells having different shedding frequencies. Within each cell shedding is regular and periodic, the frequency being somewhat lower than that from a parallel cylinder of the same diameter. A similar type of wake behaviour has also been observed on a parallel model in a non-uniform mean flow. These results suggest that the discontinuities in the shedding law observed by Tritton could arise through non-uniformities in 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.

Suppression of vortex shedding behind a circular cylinder by another control cylinder at low Reynolds numbers

2007 ◽  
Vol 573 ◽  
pp. 171-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. DIPANKAR ◽  
T. K. SENGUPTA ◽  
S. B. TALLA
Keyword(s):  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Physical Mechanism ◽  
Grid Method ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Accurate Solution ◽  
Navier Stokes ◽  
Navier Stokes Equation ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Low Reynolds ◽  
Control Cylinder

Vortex shedding behind a cylinder can be controlled by placing another small cylinder behind it, at low Reynolds numbers. This has been demonstrated experimentally by Strykowski & Sreenivasan (J. Fluid Mech. vol. 218, 1990, p. 74). These authors also provided preliminary numerical results, modelling the control cylinder by the innovative application of boundary conditions on some selective nodes. There are no other computational and theoretical studies that have explored the physical mechanism. In the present work, using an over-set grid method, we report and verify numerically the experimental results for flow past a pair of cylinders. Apart from providing an accurate solution of the Navier–Stokes equation, we also employ an energy-based receptivity analysis method to discuss some aspects of the physical mechanism behind vortex shedding and its control. These results are compared with the flow picture developed using a dynamical system approach based on the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) technique.

Flow separation on a spheroid at incidence

1979 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taeyoung Han ◽  
V. C. Patel
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Numerical Solutions ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Inviscid Flow ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Surface Flow ◽  
Laminar Separation ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Turbulent Separation

Surface streamline patterns on a spheroid have been examined at several angles of attack. Most of the tests were performed at low Reynolds numbers in a hydraulic flume using coloured dye to make the surface flow visible. A limited number of experiments was also carried out in a wind tunnel, using wool tufts, to study the influence of Reynolds number and turbulent separation. The study has verified some of the important qualitative features of three-dimensional separation criteria proposed earlier by Maskell, Wang and others. The observed locations of laminar separation lines on a spheroid at various incidences have been compared with the numerical solutions of Wang and show qualitative agreement. The quantitative differences are attributed largely to the significant viscous-inviscid flow interaction which is present, especially at large incidences.

Two-dimensional numerical study of vortex shedding regimes of oscillatory flow past two circular cylinders in side-by-side and tandem arrangements at low Reynolds numbers

2014 ◽  
Vol 751 ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhao ◽  
Liang Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Oscillatory Flow ◽  
Flow Regimes ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Circular Cylinders ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Single Cylinder ◽  
Gap Ratio

AbstractOscillatory flow past two circular cylinders in side-by-side and tandem arrangements at low Reynolds numbers is simulated numerically by solving the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes (NS) equations using a finite-element method (FEM). The aim of this study is to identify the flow regimes of the two-cylinder system at different gap arrangements and Keulegan–Carpenter numbers (KC). Simulations are conducted at seven gap ratios $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}G$ ($G=L/D$ where $L$ is the cylinder-to-cylinder gap and $D$ the diameter of a cylinder) of 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and KC ranging from 1 to 12 with an interval of 0.25. The flow regimes that have been identified for oscillatory flow around a single cylinder are also observed in the two-cylinder system but with different flow patterns due to the interactions between the two cylinders. In the side-by-side arrangement, the vortex shedding from the gap between the two cylinders dominates when the gap ratio is small, resulting in the gap vortex shedding (GVS) regime, which is different from any of the flow regimes identified for a single cylinder. For intermediate gap ratios of 1.5 and 2 in the side-by-side arrangement, the vortex shedding mode from one side of each cylinder is not necessarily the same as that from the other side, forming a so-called combined flow regime. When the gap ratio between the two cylinders is sufficiently large, the vortex shedding from each cylinder is similar to that of a single cylinder. In the tandem arrangement, when the gap between the two cylinders is very small, the flow regimes are similar to that of a single cylinder. For large gap ratios in the tandem arrangement, the vortex shedding flows from the gap side of the two cylinders interact and those from the outer sides of the cylinders are less affected by the existence of the other cylinder and similar to that of a single cylinder. Strong interaction between the vortex shedding flows from the two cylinders makes the flow very irregular at large KC values for both side-by-side and tandem arrangements.

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