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Flow around a circular cylinder near a plane boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

P. W. Bearman  and
M. M. Zdravkovich
P. W. Bearman
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London
M. M. Zdravkovich
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Salford, England
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Abstract

The flow around a circular cylinder placed at various heights above a plane boundary has been investigated experimentally. The cylinder spanned the test section of a wind tunnel and was aligned with its axis parallel to a long plate and normal to the free stream. It was placed 36 diameters downstream of the leading edge of the plate and its height above the plate was varied from zero, the cylinder lying on the surface, to 3·5 cylinder diameters. The thickness of the turbulent boundary layer on the plate at the cylinder position, but with it removed from the tunnel, was equal to 0·8 of the cylinder diameter. Distributions of mean pressure around the cylinder and along the plate were measured at a Reynolds number, based on cylinder diameter, of 4·5 × 104. Spectral analysis of hot-wire signals demonstrated that regular vortex shedding was suppressed for all gaps less than about 0·3 cylinder diameters. For gaps greater than 0·3 the Strouhal number was found to be remarkably constant and the only influence of the plate on vortex shedding was to make it a more highly tuned process as the gap was reduced. Flow-visualization experiments in a smoke tunnel revealed the wake structure at various gap-to-diameter ratios.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , 14 November 1978 , pp. 33 - 47
Copyright
© 1978 Cambridge University Press

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