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Vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in moderate-Reynolds-number shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

Masaru Kiya ,
Hisataka Tamura  and
Mikio Arie
Masaru Kiya
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
Hisataka Tamura
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
Mikio Arie
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 Japan
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Abstract

The frequency of vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in a uniform shear flow and the flow patterns around it were experimentally investigated. The Reynolds number Re, which was defined in terms of the cylinder diameter and the approaching velocity at its centre, ranged from 35 to 1500. The shear parameter, which is the transverse velocity gradient of the shear flow non-dimensionalized by the above two quantities, was varied from 0 to 0·25. The critical Reynolds number beyond which vortex shedding from the cylinder occurred was found to be higher than that for a uniform stream and increased approximately linearly with increasing shear parameter when it was larger than about 0·06. In the Reynolds-number range 43 < Re < 220, the vortex shedding disappeared for sufficiently large shear parameters. Moreover, in the Reynolds-number range 100 < Re < 1000, the Strouhal number increased as the shear parameter increased beyond about 0·1.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 101 , Issue 4 , 29 December 1980 , pp. 721 - 735
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© 1980 Cambridge University Press

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