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Influence of rotation on the near-wake development behind an impulsively started circular cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Madeleine Coutanceau  and
Christian Ménard
Madeleine Coutanceau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides
Laboratoire associé au C.N.R.S. dans le cadre du L.A. n° 91.
, 40, Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France
Christian Ménard
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides
Laboratoire associé au C.N.R.S. dans le cadre du L.A. n° 91.
, 40, Avenue du Recteur Pineau, 86022 Poitiers Cedex, France
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Abstract

The early phase of the establishment of the flow past a circular cylinder started impulsively into rotation and translation is investigated by visualizing the flow patterns with solid tracers and by analysing qualitatively (flow topology) and quantitatively (velocity distributions and singular-point trajectories) the corresponding photographs. The range considered corresponds to moderate Reynolds numbers (Re [les ] 1000). The rotating-to-translating-speed ratio α increases from 0 to 3.25 and the motion covers a period during which the cylinder translates 4.5 or even 7 times its diameter. The details of the mechanisms of the near-wake formation are considered in particular and the increase of the flow asymmetry with increase in rotation is pointed out. Thus the existence of two regimes has been confirmed with the creation or non-creation of alternate eddies after an initial one E1 Furthermore, the new phenomena of saddle-point transposition and intermediate-eddy coalescence have been identified in the formation or shedding of respectively the odd and even subsequent eddies Ei (i = 2,3,…) when they exist. The very good agreement between these experimental data and the numerical results of Badr & Dennis (1985), obtained by solving the Navier-Stokes equations and presented in a parallel paper, confirms their respective validity and permits the determination of the flow characteristics not accessible, or accessible only with difficulty, to the present experiments. These flow properties such as drag and vorticity are capable of providing information on the Magnus effect for the former property and on unsteady separated flows for the latter.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 158 , September 1985 , pp. 399 - 446
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© 1985 Cambridge University Press

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