Three-dimensional instabilities of a stratified cylinder wake

Three-dimensional instabilities of a stratified cylinder wake

Three-Dimensional Instabilities in the Wake of a Circular Cylinder

Mark Thompson Kerry Hourigan John Sheridan Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia • The twoand three-dimensional wake structure behind a circular cylinder has been computed using a high-order spectral element technique. For the two-dimensional computations the predictions are compared with accurate experimental results and agree to within experimental uncert...

Three-dimensional vortex structures in a cylinder wake

The three-dimensionality of the velocity field in the wake of a circular cylinder has excited considerable interest and debate over the past decade. Presented here are experimental results that characterize the underlying vorticity field of such wakes. Using particle image velocimetry (PIV), instantaneous velocity fields were measured and from these the vorticity of the longitudinal vortices ly...

Dynamics of a tilted cylinder wake in a stratified fluid

Despite the large amount of research devoted to bluff body wakes [1], very few studies have focused on stratified wakes despite their obvious applications to geophysical flows. Moreover, most of these studies have studied the turbulent regime in the wake of a sphere or an ellipsoid [2,3], due to its naval applications for submarine wakes. These bluff bodies have a finite height, which leads to ...

Confined three-dimensional stability analysis of the cylinder wake.

A spatially confined stability analysis is reported for the cylinder wake at Reynolds numbers 190 and 260. The two three-dimensional instabilities at these Reynolds numbers are shown to be driven by the flow just behind the cylinder.