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Stratified wake of a tilted cylinder. Part 1. Suppression of a von Kármán vortex street

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2012

Patrice Meunier
Patrice Meunier*
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Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre, 49, rue F. Joliot-Curie, B.P. 146, F-13384 Marseille CEDEX 13, France
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†Email address for correspondence: meunier@irphe.univ-mrs.fr
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Abstract

This experimental and numerical study considers the two-dimensional stability of a circular cylinder wake, whose axis is tilted with respect to a stable density gradient. When the Reynolds number increases, the wake transitions from a steady flow to a periodic von Kármán vortex street as in a homogeneous fluid. However, the presence of a moderate stratification delays the appearance of the von Kármán vortex street, in agreement with the stabilization of shear flows by a density gradient. This stabilization, which does not occur for a vertical cylinder, increases with the tilt angle of the cylinder and is maximum for a horizontal cylinder. The critical Reynolds number increases when the stratification increases and diverges at a Froude number of order one for a horizontal cylinder. This critical Reynolds number can be predicted using the Richardson number based on the projection of the gravity and the density gradient in the direction of the shear, as was proposed by Candelier (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 685, pp. 191–201) for a tilted stratified jet. This picture is completely different for a strongly stratified wake since a new unstable mode appears, creating a von Kármán vortex street with a smaller Strouhal number. This surprising result is due to the presence of tilted vortices with no vertical velocity, i.e. with horizontal elliptic streamlines. This mode occurs in a band of Froude numbers which becomes smaller and smaller when the tilt angle increases, and eventually disappears for a horizontal cylinder. The presence of the tilt has thus a large impact on the structure of the wake at small Froude numbers and might need to be taken into account in geophysical flows.

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Geophysical and Geological Flows: Internal waves Geophysical and Geological Flows: Stratified flows Wakes/Jets: Wakes
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 699 , 25 May 2012 , pp. 174 - 197
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