The purpose of this paper is to characterize and estimate the recirculating length behind an aerodynamic profile in ground effect with Gurney Flap. flow characterization at high Reynolds numbers was performed by means numerical analysis. A correlation between size recirculation frequency vortex shedding studied. has a characteristic frequency, which, work, correlated defined authors. investigat...

Flow and flow-induced vibration of a square array of cylinders are investigated by two-dimensional numerical simulations. Flow past 36 cylinders in an inline arranged square array and 33 cylinders in a staggered arranged square array is firstly simulated, for Re=100 and the spacing ratios of L/D=1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5. Only one vortex street is observed in the wake of the cylinder array when the spaci...

The relationship between lateral static stability derivative, Clβ , lift coefficient, CL, and angle of attack was investigated for rectangular wings of aspect ratioA= 0.75,1,1.5, and 3 using Stereo-Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (S-DPIV) and direct force and moment measurements. When the product ClβA is plotted with respect to CL, the lateral stability curves of each wing collapse to a sing...

1 Lagrangian analysis is capable of revealing the underlying structure and complex phenomena in unsteady flows. We present Particle-Image Velocimetry measurements of the wake of a cylinder undergoing streamwise vortex-induced vibrations and calculate the Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponents (FTLE) in backward-and forward-time. The FTLE fields are compared to the phase-averaged vorticity fields for th...