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Influence of slip on the flow past superhydrophobic circular cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2011

PRANESH MURALIDHAR ,
NANGELIE FERRER ,
ROBERT DANIELLO  and
JONATHAN P. ROTHSTEIN
PRANESH MURALIDHAR
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
NANGELIE FERRER
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
ROBERT DANIELLO
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
JONATHAN P. ROTHSTEIN*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: rothstein@ecs.umass.edu
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Abstract

Superhydrophobic surfaces have been shown to produce significant drag reduction for both laminar and turbulent flows of water through large- and small-scale channels. In this paper, a series of experiments were performed which investigated the effect of superhydrophobic-induced slip on the flow past a circular cylinder. In these experiments, circular cylinders were coated with a series of superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated from polydimethylsiloxane with well-defined micron-sized patterns of surface roughness. The presence of the superhydrophobic surface was found to have a significant effect on the vortex shedding dynamics in the wake of the circular cylinder. When compared to a smooth, no-slip cylinder, cylinders coated with superhydrophobic surfaces were found to delay the onset of vortex shedding and increase the length of the recirculation region in the wake of the cylinder. For superhydrophobic surfaces with ridges aligned in the flow direction, the separation point was found to move further upstream towards the front stagnation point of the cylinder and the vortex shedding frequency was found to increase. For superhydrophobic surfaces with ridges running normal to the flow direction, the separation point and shedding frequency trends were reversed. Thus, in this paper we demonstrate that vortex shedding dynamics is very sensitive to changes of feature spacing, size and orientation along superhydrophobic surfaces.

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Flow Control: Drag reduction Wakes/Jets: Separated flows Vortex Flows: Vortex shedding
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 680 , 10 August 2011 , pp. 459 - 476
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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