Abstract Purpose This study aims to understand the vibratory response of a circular cylinder placed in proximity other fixed bodies. Methods A model was circulating water channel and supported elastically vibrate water. Another two cylinders were upstream vibrating cylinder. The temporal displacement variations measured processed by frequency analysis. Results When inline spacings small, amplit...

Periodic vortex streets, often considered as a model for the organized structures observed in the wake of two-dimensional (2D) bluff bodies, are revisited. After the generation of the shear layers the formation of the vortices is mainly an inviscid process. An intrinsic scaling for the formation of vortex streets is found based on the invariants of motion for 2D inviscid flows; namely the kinet...

The aerodynamics of a stationary wing in turbulent wake are investigated. Force and velocity measurements used to describe the unsteady flow. Various wakes studied with different dominant frequencies length scales. In contrast pre-stall angles attack, time-averaged lift increases substantially at post-stall attack as interacts von Kármán vortex street experiences temporal variations effective a...

This paper proposes a generalized model for vortex shedding around static cylinder. is first step to bridge the gap between two existing families of Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV) models , namely (1) stochastic spectral and (2) wake-oscillator with coupled fluid structural equations. The family experimentally-based while second typically rely on theoretical phenomenological concepts. These use ...

The path to turbulence in the wake of cylinders with square crosssection is investigated by means of direct numerical simulation, employing a two-dimensional spectral element method and Floquet linear stability analysis. The critical Reynolds number for the onset of the three-dimensional instability modes A, B, C and QP are reported for cylinder incidence angles between 0° and 45°. The Strouhal...

Three types of streamline topology in a Kármán vortex street flow are shown under the variation of spatial parameters. For the motion of dilute particles in the Kármán vortex street flow, there exist a route of bifurcation to a chaotic orbit and more attractors in a bifurcation diagram for the proportion of particle density to fluid density. Along with the increase of spatial parameters in the ...

The purpose of this paper is to survey some of the highlights of computational fluid dynamics as an emerging branch of aeronautical science, and to identify several remaining unsurmounted challenges. Prior to the advent of the computer there was already in place a rather comprehensive mathematical formulation of fluid mechanics. This had been developed by elegant mathetical analysis, frequently...

A new electromagnetic energy harvester for harnessing energy from vibration induced by Kármán vortex street is proposed. It converts flow energy into electrical energy by fluid flow, vortex shedding from a bluff body and electromagnetic induction. An analytical design method for the energy harvester is developed. A prototype of the energy harvester is fabricated and tested. The prototype has a ...