Effect of Karman vortex shedding on dynamic stall

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. ERICSSON
Author(s):  
Simone Ferrari ◽  
Simone Ambrogio ◽  
Andrew J Narracott ◽  
Adrian Walker ◽  
Paul D Morris ◽  
...  

Abstract Medical device design for personalised medicine requires sophisticated tools for optimisation of biomechanical and biofluidic devices. This paper investigates a new real-time tool for simulating structural and fluid scenarios - ANSYS Discovery Live - and we evaluate its capability in the fluid domain through benchmark flows that all involve steady state flow at the inlet and zero pressure at the outlet. Three scenarios are reported: i. Laminar flow in a straight pipe, ii. vortex shedding from the Karman Vortex, and iii. nozzle flows as characterised by an FDA benchmark geometry. The solver uses a Lattice Boltzmann method requiring a high performance GPU (nVidiaGTX1080, 8GB RAM). Results in each case were compared with the literature and demonstrated credible solutions, all delivered in near real-time: i. The straight pipe delivered parabolic flow after an appropriate entrance length (plug flow inlet conditions), ii. the Karman Vortex demonstrated appropriate vortex shedding as a function of Reynolds number, characterised by Strouhal number in both the free field and within a pipe, and ii the FDA benchmark geometry generated results consistent with the literature in terms of variation of velocity along the centreline and in the radial direction, although deviation from experimental validation was evident in the sudden expansion section of the geometry. This behaviour is similar to previous reported results from Navier-Stokes solvers. A cardiovascular stenosis example is also considered, to provide a more direct biomedical context. The current software framework imposes constraints on inlet/outlet boundary conditions, and only supports limited control of solver discretization without providing full field vector flow data outputs. Nonetheless, numerous benefits result from the interactive interface and almost-real-time solution, providing a tool that may help to accelerate the arrival of improved patient-specific medical devices.


Author(s):  
Atsushi Okajima ◽  
Takahiro Kiwata ◽  
Satoru Yasui ◽  
Yoshiki Mori ◽  
Shigeo Kimura

Flow-induced streamwise oscillation of two tandem square cylinders has been studied by means of free-oscillation testing in a wind tunnel. One cylinder was elastically supported so as to allow it to move in the streamwise direction; the other was fixed to the tunnel sidewalls. Small values of the reduced mass-damping parameter (Cn ≤ 1.63) have been considered. When the upstream cylinder is free to oscillate, there are two excitation regions: the first for reduced velocity, Vr, in the range 2.5 ≤ Vr ≤ 5 and cylinder gap distance to reference-length ratio, s, between 0.3 and 2, is due to movement-induced excitation accompanied by symmetrical vortex shedding, while the second, for 0.75 ≤ s ≤ 1.5 and 4.5 ≤ Vr ≤ 6.5, is due to vortex excitation by alternate Karman vortex shedding, accompanied with unstable limit-cycle oscillation. For wide gap distances over 2.5, an excitation region of the upstream cylinder occurs for 3.5 ≤ Vr ≤ 4.7, which is due to alternate Karman vortex shedding, and resembles the streamwise oscillation of a single cylinder. On the other hand, when the downstream cylinder is free to oscillate for narrow gap distances of 0.3 ≤ s ≤ 0.75, the response characteristics have an excitation region due to alternate Karman vortex shedding from the two cylinders, connected by dead water region between them, for 3.2 ≤ Vr ≤ 5.4. When s is greater than 1, the downstream cylinder experiences buffeting by wake fluctuation of the upstream cylinder.


2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junshi Ito ◽  
Hiroshi Niino

Abstract A mesoscale atmospheric numerical model is used to simulate two cases of Kármán vortex shedding in the lee of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the winter of 2013. Observed cloud patterns associated with the Kármán vortex shedding are successfully reproduced. When the winter monsoon flows out from the Eurasian continent, a convective mixed layer develops through the supply of heat and moisture from the relatively warm Yellow Sea and encounters Jeju Island and dynamical conditions favorable for the formation of lee vortices are realized. Vortices that form behind the island induce updrafts to trigger cloud formation at the top of the convective boundary layer. A sensitivity experiment in which surface drag on the island is eliminated demonstrates that the formation mechanism of the atmospheric Kármán vortex shedding is different from that behind a bluff body in classical fluid mechanics.


2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (0) ◽  
pp. _721-1_-_721-5_
Author(s):  
Hiromitsu HAMAKAWA ◽  
Tohru FUKANO ◽  
Masaki ANDO ◽  
Eiichi NISHIDA

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (0) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Tomohiro KUDO ◽  
Hiromitsu HAMAKAWA ◽  
Kouji KOMATSU ◽  
Tohru FUKANO ◽  
Masaki ANDO ◽  
...  

1974 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Ramberg ◽  
O. M. Griffin

The von Karman vortex streets formed in the wakes of vibrating, flexible cables were studied using a hot-wire anemometer. All the experiments took place in the flow regime where the vibration and vortex-shedding frequencies lock together, or synchronize, to control the wake formation. Detailed measurements were made of the vortex formation flow for Reynolds numbers between 230 and 650. As in the case of vibrating cylinders, the formation-region length is dependent on a shedding parameter St* related to the natural Strouhal number and the vibrational conditions. Furthermore, the near wake configuration is found to be dependent on the local amplitude of vibration suggesting that the vibrating cylinder rseults are directly applicable in that region.


2021 ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
Ratan Kumar Das ◽  
Muhammad Taharat Galib

The Kármán Vortex Shedding is one of the special types of vortex that is generated from asymmetric flow separation. For many years engineers tried to suppress the vortex shedding as it brings unnecessary motion to the static members inside the flow field. A converter model is designed and studied to harness the energy associated with this vortex shedding and convert it into usable form rather than suppressing it. It is a bluff body placed on the free stream incurring vortex-induced vibration and giving out a swinging pendulum motion. This motion is utilized to produce electricity. The model is analyzed on the free stream of water and conversion efficiency of 8.9% is achieved. A theoretical formula is derived regarding the force acting on the bluff body during the motion. Various parameters such as aspect ratio, flow velocity, lock-in delay, frequency of oscillation, etc. as well as their relations are studied by simulating the model in ANSYS FLUENT 18.1 for different configurations. From the simulated results it is obvious that as the lift force on the bluff body increases, more power generation is possible. Also, the experimental results paved the way for further study for practical large-scale implementation of the converter.


2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (0) ◽  
pp. _814-1_-_814-4_
Author(s):  
Hiromitsu HAMAKAWA ◽  
Tomohiro KUDO ◽  
Eiichi NISHIDA ◽  
Tohru FUKANO

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