scholarly journals Flow-Induced Vibration of Bluff Bodies. Necklace Vortex Excitation of Upstream Cylinder in Crisscross Circular Cylinder System. Influence of Cylinder Diameter, Gap and Damping Factor.

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 756-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isao KUMAGAI ◽  
Tsuyoshi MATSUMOTO ◽  
Tsutomu TAKAHASHI ◽  
Masataka SHIRAKASHI
Author(s):  
Md. Mahbub Alam ◽  
An Ran ◽  
Yu Zhou

This paper presents cross-flow induced response of a both-end-spring-mounted circular cylinder (diameter D) placed in the wake of a rigid circular cylinder of smaller diameter d. The cylinder vibration is constrained to the transverse direction. The cylinder diameter ratio d/D and spacing ratio L/d are varied from 0.2 to 1.0 and 1.0 to 5.5, respectively, where L is the distance between the center of the upstream cylinder to the forward stagnation point of the downstream cylinder. A violent vibration of the cylinder is observed for d/D = 0.2 ∼ 0.8 at L/d = 1.0, for d/D = 0.24 ∼ 0.6 at 1.0 < L/d ≤ 2.5, for d/D = 0.2 ∼ 0.4 at 2.5 < L/d ≤ 3.5, and for d/D = 0.2 at 3.5 < L/d ≤ 5.5, but not for d/D = 1.0. A smaller d/D generates vibration for a longer range of L/d. The violent vibration occurs at a reduced velocity Ur (=U∞/fnD, where U∞ is the free-stream velocity and fn the natural frequency of the cylinder system) beyond the vortex excitation regime (Ur ≥ 8) depending on d/D and L/d. Once the vibration starts to occur, the vibration amplitude increases rapidly with increasing Ur. It is further noted that the flow behind the downstream cylinder is characterized by two predominant frequencies, corresponding to the cylinder vibration frequency and the natural vortex shedding frequency of the cylinder, respectively. While the former persists downstream, the latter vanishes rapidly.


Author(s):  
Koki Yamada ◽  
Yuga Shigeyoshi ◽  
Shuangjing Chen ◽  
Yoshiki Nishi

Abstract Purpose This study elucidated the effect of an inclined spring arrangement on the flow-induced vibration of a circular cylinder to understand if the effect enhances the harnessing of the energy of fluid flows. Method An experiment was conducted on a circulating water channel. A circular cylinder was partially submerged. It was elastically supported by two springs whose longitudinal directions were varied. With the speed of the water flow varied, the vibrations of the circular cylinder were measured. The measured vibrations were interpreted by la linear dynamic model. Results and discussion In a few cases, a jump in response amplitudes from zero to the maximum was observed with the spring inclination at reduced velocities of 6 to 7, whereas gradually increasing response amplitudes were observed in other cases. The inclined spring arrangement achieved greater velocity amplitudes than in cases without spring inclination. A theoretical evaluation of the measured responses indicates that the effect of the inclined springs was caused by geometric nonlinearity; the effect would be more prominent by employing a longer moment lever.


CFD letters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Nurul Azihan Ramli ◽  
Azlin Mohd Azmi ◽  
Ahmad Hussein Abdul Hamid ◽  
Zainal Abidin Kamarul Baharin ◽  
Tongming Zhou

Flow over bluff bodies produces vortex shedding in their wake regions, leading to structural failure from the flow-induced forces. In this study, a passive flow control method was explored to suppress the vortex shedding from a circular cylinder that causes many problems in engineering applications. Perforated shrouds were used to control the vortex shedding of a circular cylinder at Reynolds number, Re = 200. The shrouds were of non-uniform and uniform holes with 67% porosity. The spacing gap ratio between the shroud and the cylinder was set at 1.2, 1.5, 2, and 2.2. The analysis was conducted using ANSYS Fluent using a viscous laminar model. The outcomes of the simulation of the base case were validated with existing studies. The drag coefficient, Cd, lift coefficient, Cl and the Strouhal number, St, as well as vorticity contours, velocity contours, and pressure contours were examined. Vortex shedding behind the shrouded cylinders was observed to be suppressed and delayed farther downstream with increasing gap ratio. The effect was significant for spacing ratio greater than 2.0. The effect of hole types: uniform and non-uniform holes, was also effective at these spacing ratios for the chosen Reynolds number of 200. Specifically, a spacing ratio of 1.2 enhanced further the vortex intensity and should be avoided.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Soo Ha ◽  
Boo Youn Lee ◽  
Sung Hun Shim

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