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An experimental investigation of the oscillating lift and drag of a circular cylinder shedding turbulent vortices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

J. H. Gerrard
J. H. Gerrard
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, Manchester University
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Abstract

The oscillating lift and drag on circular cylinders are determined from measurements of the fluctuating pressure on the cylinder surface in the range of Reynolds number from 4 × 103 to just above 105.

The magnitude of the r.m.s. lift coefficient has a maximum of about 0.8 at a Reynolds number of 7 × 104 and falls to about 0.01 at a Reynolds number of 4 × 103. The fluctuating component of the drag was determined for Reynolds numbers greater than 2 × 104 and was found to be an order of magnitude smaller than the lift.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , September 1961 , pp. 244 - 256
Copyright
© 1961 Cambridge University Press

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