FLOWFIELD PRODUCED BY A VORTEX RING TRAVELLING ACROSS A THIN CYLINDER

Thermal Field Around a Circular Cylinder with Periodic Vortex Shedding

A numerical study is carried out to investigate the laminar forced convection heat transfer from a circular cylinder. The fluid is assumed to be incompressible, the Reynolds number ranged from 0.1 to 1000, and the Prandtl number was equal to 0.7. The range of study includes heat transfer in creeping flow (Re40). The equations were discretized by a control-volume-based finite difference techniqu...

Vortex Dynamics on a Cylinder

Spatially periodic rows of point vortices in a 2-dimensional ideal fluid have long attracted the attention of fluid dynamicists, one of the earliest and the most popular instances being Kármán’s vortex street [6], [15, photos 94–98]. The general problem is as follows: analyse the motion of an infinite configuration consisting of vortices z1, . . . , zN ∈ C with vorticities Γ1, . . . ,ΓN ∈ R tog...

Sound generation by a vortex ring collision

Longitudinal vortex structures in a cylinder wake

Recently, flow visualizations by Wei and Smith,’ Williamson,’ Welsh et a1.,3 and Bays-Muchmore and Ahmed4 have shown that three-dimensional (3-D) vertical structures develop in the wake of a bluff body. The 3-D vertical structures were found to include pairs of counterrotating longitudinal vortices superimposed on the nominally two-dimensional (2-D) Kirmin vortex street as speculated by Grant’ ...

Weakened Vortex Shedding from a Rotating Cylinder

An experimental study of the turbulent near wake of a rotating circular cylinder was made at a Reynolds number of 2000 for velocity ratios, λ between 0 and 2.7. Particle image velocimetry data are analyzed to study the effects of rotation on the flow structures behind the cylinder. The results indicate that the rotation of the cylinder causes significant changes in the vortex formation. Kármán ...