{"title":"Wavy ground effects on the stability of cylinder wakes","authors":"M. Duran, E. Ferrer, S. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1007/s00162-024-00687-0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The stability of the flow past a circular cylinder in the presence of a wavy ground is investigated numerically in this paper. The wavy ground consists of two complete waves with a wavelength of 4<i>D</i> and an amplitude of 0.5<i>D</i>, where <i>D</i> is the cylinder diameter. The vertical distance between the cylinder and the ground is varied, and four different cases are considered. The stability analysis shows that the critical Reynolds number increases for cases close to the ground when compared to the flow past a cylinder away from the ground. The maximum critical Reynolds number is obtained when the cylinder is located in front of the waves. The wavy ground adds layers of clockwise (negative) vorticity due to flow separation from the wave peak, to the oscillating Kármán vortex. This negative vorticity from the wave peak also cancels part of the positive (counterclockwise) vorticity shed from the bottom half of the cylinder. In addition, the negative vorticity from the wave peak strengthens the clockwise (negative) vorticity shed from the top half of the cylinder. These interactions combined with the ground effect skewed the flow away from the ground. The base flow is skewed upward for all the near-ground cases. However, this skew is larger when the cylinder is located over the wavy ground. The vortex shedding frequency is also altered due to the presence of the waves. The main eigenmode found for plain flow past a cylinder appears to become suppressed for cases closer to the ground. Limited particle image velocimetry experiments are reported which corroborate the finding from the stability analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":795,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics","volume":"38 2","pages":"139 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00162-024-00687-0","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MECHANICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The stability of the flow past a circular cylinder in the presence of a wavy ground is investigated numerically in this paper. The wavy ground consists of two complete waves with a wavelength of 4D and an amplitude of 0.5D, where D is the cylinder diameter. The vertical distance between the cylinder and the ground is varied, and four different cases are considered. The stability analysis shows that the critical Reynolds number increases for cases close to the ground when compared to the flow past a cylinder away from the ground. The maximum critical Reynolds number is obtained when the cylinder is located in front of the waves. The wavy ground adds layers of clockwise (negative) vorticity due to flow separation from the wave peak, to the oscillating Kármán vortex. This negative vorticity from the wave peak also cancels part of the positive (counterclockwise) vorticity shed from the bottom half of the cylinder. In addition, the negative vorticity from the wave peak strengthens the clockwise (negative) vorticity shed from the top half of the cylinder. These interactions combined with the ground effect skewed the flow away from the ground. The base flow is skewed upward for all the near-ground cases. However, this skew is larger when the cylinder is located over the wavy ground. The vortex shedding frequency is also altered due to the presence of the waves. The main eigenmode found for plain flow past a cylinder appears to become suppressed for cases closer to the ground. Limited particle image velocimetry experiments are reported which corroborate the finding from the stability analysis.
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