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Stability of flows past a pair of circular cylinders in a side-by-side arrangement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2008

J. MIZUSHIMA  and
Y. INO
J. MIZUSHIMA
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
Y. INO
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
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Abstract

The stability and transition of flow past a pair of circular cylinders in a side-by-side arrangement are investigated by numerical simulations and linear stability analyses. Various flow patterns around the cylinders have been reported to appear due to an instability of the steady symmetric flow that is realized at small Reynolds numbers, among which deflected oscillatory flow is particularly noticeable. The physical origin of the flow is explored by bifurcation analyses of the numerical data. We found that the deflected oscillatory flow arises from the steady symmetric flow through sequential instabilities due to stationary and oscillatory unstable modes. Steady asymmetric flow with respect to the streamwise centreline between the two cylinders was also found to be induced by the instability due to a stationary mode in a very narrow range of the gap width between the two cylinders. We classify the instability modes of the steady symmetric flow into four groups in the parameter space of the gap width, and evaluate the critical Reynolds number for each mode of instability.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 595 , 25 January 2008 , pp. 491 - 507
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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