Ground Effect on Current Energy Harvesting From a Freely-Oscillating Circular Cylinder at Low Reynolds Number

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed A. Hamada ◽  
Mirjam Fürth
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Ground Effect ◽  
Water Current ◽  
Oscillating Cylinder ◽  
Power Harvesting ◽  
Ground Effects ◽  
Current Energy

Abstract This paper investigates the potential of current energy harvesting from a freely-oscillating circular cylinder, with a focus on near-ground effects. Energy can be harvested by converting the oscillatory motion of a cylinder excited by water current into electricity. The boundary shear layer, created by the ground surface, interacts with the cylinder vortices and consequently affects the force behavior and power harvesting performance. The problem is simulated in a two-dimensional turbulent flow, using the Finite Volume (FV) solver and the dynamic motion module, inherited in OpenFOAM. Ground effects on the power generation capacity of an oscillating cylinder operating in river current velocity at Reynolds number of 3 × 104 are studied at varying depths. Vortex-induced vibration is studied to observe the ground boundary layer influence on the structural response, vortex structure, hydrodynamic forces, and gained power. The results shed physical insight into the understanding of the flow behavior of the oscillating cylinder near the ground. Simulations show that the ground effect appears when the distance between the cylinder and the ground is less than three times the cylinder’s diameter. Decreasing the gap distance between the cylinder and the ground suppresses the vortices behind the oscillating cylinder, causing an increase in the harvested energy. Further, the optimal-power harvesting distance between the ground and the freely-oscillating cylinder is two and half times the cylinder’s diameter, because of the high oscillating frequency, causing higher power relative to shorter distances.

Flow Induced Oscillation of a Set-In Circular Cylinder

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Oviedo-Tolentino ◽  
R. Romero-Mendez ◽  
A. Hernandez-Guerrero ◽  
J. M. Luna
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Flow Direction ◽  
Flow Behavior ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Structure Interaction ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
Flow Experiments

This work studies the fluid-structure interaction of a set-in, large aspect-ratio circular cylinder in cantilever subjected to a cross flow. Experiments were conducted in a water tunnel and observations were obtained using flow visualization techniques and direct observation of the deflection of the cylinder. The flow behavior was observed using dye injection. The experiments show that the dominant vibration of the cylinder is transversal to the flow direction, and that the first mode of vibration of the cylinder appears at a particular Reynolds number, which is a function of the mechanical properties of the cylinder. The deflection stops when the Reynolds number is increased. The peak deflection and frequency of oscillation, as a function of the Reynolds number, were also determined. The analysis shows a close relation between the frequency of oscillation and the frequency of appearance of a vortex shedding. For large deflections of the cylinder the flow structure is modified substantially, and the frequency at which vortex appears is different to the frequency that occurs for fixed cylinders.

scholarly journals Large Eddy Simulation of Flow Past a Stationary and Controlled Oscillating Circular Cylinder at Re=5500

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunghan Kim ◽  
Philip A. Wilson ◽  
Zhi-Min Chen
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Large Eddy Simulation ◽  
Accurate Method ◽  
Excitation Amplitude ◽  
Uniform Flow ◽  
Cylinder Wake ◽  
Oscillating Cylinder ◽  
Eddy Simulation ◽  
Large Eddy

Vortex shedding from a stationary cylinder and transversely oscillating circular cylinder in a uniform flow at a Reynolds number of 5500 is numerically studied by three-dimensional Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The filtered equations are discretised using the finite volume method with an O-type structured grid and a second-order accurate method in both time and space. Firstly, the main wake parameters of a stationary cylinder are examined and compared for different grid resolutions. Secondly, a transversely oscillating cylinder with a constant amplitude in a uniform flow is investigated. The cylinder oscillation frequency ranges between 0.75 and 0.95 of the natural Kármán frequency, and the excitation amplitude is 50% of the cylinder diameter. Comparisons with the available experimental data indicate that the present study has properly predicted the flow statistics of the cylinder wake for both the fixed and oscillating cylinder case, and numerically captured the vortex switching phenomenon, which is characterized by changes in forces and wake mode of shedding observed in the previous experiments at high values of Reynolds number.

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder: Effect of Reynolds number

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 109378
Author(s):  
Mingjie Zhang ◽  
Chengyun Zhang ◽  
Abdessattar Abdelkefi ◽  
Haiyan Yu ◽  
Oleg Gaidai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting ◽  
Vortex Induced Vibration ◽  
Piezoelectric Energy

Low Reynolds number flow around and heat transfer from a heated circular cylinder

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bolló
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Lift Coefficient ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Low Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Reynolds Number Flow ◽  
Two Dimensional Flow ◽  
Number Flow ◽  
Low Reynolds ◽  
Increasing Temperature

Abstract The two-dimensional flow around a stationary heated circular cylinder at low Reynolds numbers of 50 < Re < 210 is investigated numerically using the FLUENT commercial software package. The dimensionless vortex shedding frequency (St) reduces with increasing temperature at a given Reynolds number. The effective temperature concept was used and St-Re data were successfully transformed to the St-Reeff curve. Comparisons include root-mean-square values of the lift coefficient and Nusselt number. The results agree well with available data in the literature.

scholarly journals Numerical Study of an Oscillating-Wing Wingmill for Ocean Current Energy Harvesting: Fluid-Solid-Body Interaction with Feedback Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
David Balam-Tamayo ◽  
Carlos Málaga ◽  
Bernardo Figueroa-Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Angle Of Attack ◽  
Ocean Current ◽  
Control Synthesis ◽  
Dimensionless Number ◽  
Control Law ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Power Extraction ◽  
Current Energy

The performance and flow around an oscillating foil device for current energy extraction (a wingmill) was studied through numerical simulations. OpenFOAM was used in order to study the two-dimensional (2D) flow around a wingmill. A closed loop control law was coded in order to follow a reference angle of attack. The objective of this control law is to modify the angle of attack in order to enhance the lift force (and increase power extraction). Dimensional analysis suggests a compromise between the generator (or damper) stiffness and actuator/control gains, so a parametric study was carried out while using a new dimensionless number, called B, which represents this compromise. It was found that there is a maximum on the efficiency curve in terms of the aforementioned dimensionless parameter. The lessons that are learned from this fluid-structure and feedback coupling are discussed; this interaction, combined with the feedback dynamics, may trigger dynamic stall, thus decreasing the performance. Moreover, if the control strategy is not carefully selected, then the energy spent on the actuator may affect efficiency considerably. This type of simulation could allow for the system identification, control synthesis, and optimization of energy harvesting devices in future studies.

Vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in moderate-Reynolds-number shear flow

1980 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaru Kiya ◽  
Hisataka Tamura ◽  
Mikio Arie
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Circular Cylinder ◽  
Shear Flow ◽  
Vortex Shedding ◽  
Transverse Velocity ◽  
Number Range ◽  
Uniform Shear ◽  
Reynolds Number Range ◽  
Moderate Reynolds Number ◽  
Shear Parameter

The frequency of vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in a uniform shear flow and the flow patterns around it were experimentally investigated. The Reynolds number Re, which was defined in terms of the cylinder diameter and the approaching velocity at its centre, ranged from 35 to 1500. The shear parameter, which is the transverse velocity gradient of the shear flow non-dimensionalized by the above two quantities, was varied from 0 to 0·25. The critical Reynolds number beyond which vortex shedding from the cylinder occurred was found to be higher than that for a uniform stream and increased approximately linearly with increasing shear parameter when it was larger than about 0·06. In the Reynolds-number range 43 < Re < 220, the vortex shedding disappeared for sufficiently large shear parameters. Moreover, in the Reynolds-number range 100 < Re < 1000, the Strouhal number increased as the shear parameter increased beyond about 0·1.

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