On symmetric and alternating-symmetric patterns in the wake of a cylinder undergoing vortex-induced vibrations in the inline or close to the inline direction

Boersma, Pieter; DeWitt, Erica; Thurber, Fey; Benner, Bridget; Riahi, Pari; Modarres‐Sadeghi, Yahya

doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2023.103886

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“…This representation is adopted here following Boersma et al. (2023) to show the time variation of the wake in a three-dimensional plot (with time in the vertical axis) that freezes the wake. Here, we have shown two cycles of oscillations.…”

Section: The Influence Of Weissenberg Number On the Wake And Flow Forcesmentioning

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Forced oscillations of a cylinder in the flow of viscoelastic fluids

Patel,

Rothstein,

Modarres-Sadeghi

2023

J. Fluid Mech.

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We investigate the effects of fluid elasticity on the flow forces and the wake structure when a rigid cylinder is placed in a viscoelastic flow and is forced to oscillate sinusoidally in the transverse direction. We consider a two-dimensional, uniform, incompressible flow of viscoelastic fluid at $Re=100$ , and use the FENE-P model to represent the viscoelastic fluid. We study how the flow forces and the wake patterns change as the amplitude of oscillations, $A^*$ , the frequency of oscillations (inversely proportional to a reduced velocity, $U^*$ ), the Weissenberg number, $Wi$ , the square of maximum polymer extensibility, $L^2$ , and the viscosity ratio, $\beta$ , change individually. We calculate the lift coefficient in phase with cylinder velocity to determine the range of different system parameters where self-excited oscillations might occur if the cylinder is allowed to oscillate freely. We also study the effect of fluid elasticity on the added mass coefficient as these parameters change. The maximum elastic stress of the fluid occurs in between the vortices that are observed in the wake. We observe a new mode of shedding in the wake of the cylinder: in addition to the primary vortices that are also observed in the Newtonian flows, secondary vortices that are caused entirely by the viscoelasticity of the fluid are observed in between the primary vortices. We also show that, for a constant $Wi$ , the strength of the polymeric stresses increases with increasing reduced velocity or with decreasing amplitude of oscillations.

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Section: The Influence Of Weissenberg Number On the Wake And Flow Forcesmentioning

confidence: 99%