Experimental investigation of flow over a square cylinder with an attached splitter plate at intermediate reynolds number

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作者
Chauhan, Manish Kumar [1 ]
Dutta, Sushanta [2 ]
More, Bhupendra Singh [3 ]
Gandhi, Bhupendra Kumar [2 ]
机构
[1] SRM Univ, Mech Engn Dept, NCR Campus, Ghaziabad 201204, Uttar Pradesh, India
[2] Indian Inst Technol Roorkee, Mech & Ind Engn Dept, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India
[3] Shri Govindram Seksaria Inst Technol & Sci, Mech Engn Dept, Indore 452003, Madhya Pradesh, India
关键词
Square cylinder; Splitter plate; Secondary vortex; Shear layer; Vortex shedding; NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; FORCES; WAKE;
D O I
10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.10.012
中图分类号
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号
0802 ;
摘要
The present work is an experimental investigation of flow control over a square cylinder using an attached splitter plate. The experiments are mainly conducted at a Reynolds number of 485. A splitter plate of varying length from 0 to 6 times of the cylinder width is attached to the rear side of the square cylinder to control the flow. The thickness of the splitter plate is kept constant at 10% of cylinder width. The flow interference of a square cylinder with an attached splitter plate is observed using Ply, Hot wire and flow visualization techniques. The primary focus is given on the flow structure and related forces. From the experiments, it has been observed that a secondary vortex appears at the tail edge of the plate after a particular length of the splitter plate. This vortex rotation is opposite to the main vortex and it influences the primary vortex shedding as well as shear layer formation. As a result, the plate modifies the wake size and flow structure behind the cylinder. The drag coefficient and the Strouhal number decrease with an increase in splitter plate length. A correlation is found between the splitter plate length, Reynolds number, and the drag coefficient. The effect of the splitter plate length on the flow field is also studied in terms of velocity, vorticity, streamlines, recirculation length, and turbulence statistics. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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