Beat of sound generated by flow past three side-by-side square cylinders

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 048102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Inoue ◽  
Yuji Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Square Cylinders ◽  
Flow Past

Numerical simulation of flow past row of square cylinders for various separation ratios

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar Chatterjee ◽  
Gautam Biswas ◽  
Sakir Amiroudine
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Square Cylinders ◽  
Flow Past

Flow Past Square Cylinders of Different Size With and Without Corner Modification

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. T. Krishne Gowda ◽  
Ravindra Holalu Venkatdas ◽  
Vikram Chowdeswarally Krishnappa
Keyword(s):  
Drag Coefficient ◽  
Flow Velocity ◽  
Strouhal Number ◽  
Lift Coefficient ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Convergence Criterion ◽  
Square Cylinder ◽  
Square Cylinders ◽  
Flow Past

In many mechanical engineering applications, separated flows often appear around any object such as tall buildings, monuments, and towers are permanently exposed to wind. Similarly, piers, bridge pillars, and legs of offshore platforms are continuously subjected to the load produced by maritime or fluvial streams. These bodies usually create a large region of separated flow and a massive unsteady wake region in the downstream. The highly asymmetric and periodic nature of flow in the downstream has attracted the attention of physicists, engineers and CFD practitioners. A lot of research work is carried out for a square cylinder but flow past square cylinders with and without corner modification work is not taken up. This motivated to take up the task of flow past two different sized square cylinders, numerically simulated. A Reynolds number of 100 and 200 is considered for the investigation. The flow is assumed to be two dimensional unsteady and incompressible. The computational methodology is carried out once the problem is defined the first step in solving the problem is to construct a geometry on which the simulation is planned. Once the geometry is constructed, proper assignment of its boundaries in accordance to the actual physical state is to be done. The various boundary options that are to be set. After setting the boundary types, the continuum type is set. The geometry is discretized into small control volumes. Once the surface mesh is completed, the mesh details are exported to a mesh file, then exported to Fluent, which is CFD solver usually run in background mode. This helps to prioritize the execution of the run. The run would continue until the required convergence criterion is reached or till the maximum number of iterations is completed. Results indicate, in case of chamfered and rounded corners in square cylinder, there is decrease in the wake width and thereby the lift and drag coefficient values. The form drag is reduced because of a higher average pressure downstream when separation is delayed by corner modification. The lift coefficients of Square cylinder with corner modification decreases but Strouhal number increases when compared with a square cylinder without corner modification. Strouhal number remains same even if magnitude of oscillations is increased while monitoring the velocity behind the cylinder. Frequency of vortex shedding decreases with the introduction of second cylinder either in the upstream or downstream of the first cylinder. As the centre distance between two cylinders i.e., pitch-to-perimeter ratio is increased to 6,the behavior of the flow almost approaches to that of flow past a square cylinder of with and without modification of same condition. When the perimeter of the upstream cylinder with and without modification is larger than the downstream cylinder, the size of the eddies is always bigger in between the cylinders compared to the downstream of the second cylinder. The flow velocity in between the cylinders with and without corner modification are less compared to the downstream of the second cylinder. As the distance increases, the flow velocity in between the cylinders become almost equal to the downstream of the second cylinder. The results are presented in the form of streamlines, flow velocity, pressure distribution. drag coefficient, lift coefficient and Strouhal number.

Influence of Rounded Corners on Flow Interference Due to Square Cylinders Using Immersed Boundary Method

2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shyam Kumar ◽  
S. Vengadesan
Keyword(s):  
Immersed Boundary Method ◽  
Bluff Body ◽  
Immersed Boundary ◽  
Drag Coefficients ◽  
Square Cylinders ◽  
Flow Past ◽  
Corner Radius ◽  
Boundary Method ◽  
Lift And Drag ◽  
Flow Interference

The influence of rounded corners on the aerodynamic forces and flow interference has been studied in detail for a uniform flow past two side-by-side arranged square cylinders. The Reynolds number (Re) based on the cylinder diameter (D) and free stream velocity (U∞) is 100. Numerical simulations are carried out for seven different transverse gap ratios (T/D), each with a minimum and maximum corner radius. An inbuilt finite difference code with staggered arrangement of flow variables is used to discretize the governing equations. The concept of immersed boundary method (IBM) is employed to simulate flow around rounded corners using the regular Cartesian grids. The computational code was validated for flow past an isolated circular cylinder, square cylinder, and two equal sized circular cylinders and the results were found to be in very good agreement with available literatures. In the present study, results in terms of the mean and rms values of lift and drag coefficients, Strouhal number, phase diagrams, and contours of streamlines and vorticity are presented. As the corner radius is increased, a reduction in the drag force is observed. There exists a significant effect of gap ratio and corner radius on the phase angle of lift and drag coefficients. Three different flow patterns, namely the single bluff body flow, biased gapside flow, and two independent bluff body flows, were observed from this study.

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