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Vortex-induced vibration of a rising and falling cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2010

M. HOROWITZ  and
C. H. K. WILLIAMSON
M. HOROWITZ
Affiliation:
144 Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
C. H. K. WILLIAMSON*
Affiliation:
144 Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: cw26@cornell.edu
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Abstract

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of a freely rising and falling cylinder. This is, in essence, a vortex-induced vibration (VIV) system comprising both transverse (Y) and streamwise (X) degrees-of-freedom (d.o.f.), but with zero spring stiffness and zero damping. This problem represents a limiting case among studies in VIV, and is an extension of recent research of elastically mounted bodies having very low spring stiffness, as well as bodies with very low mass and damping. We find that if the mass ratio (where m* = cylinder mass/displaced fluid mass) is greater than a critical value, m*crit = 0.545, the body falls or rises with a rectilinear trajectory. As the mass ratio is reduced below m*crit = 0.545, the cylinder suddenly begins to vibrate vigorously and periodically, with a 2P mode of vortex formation, as reported in the preliminary study of Horowitz & Williamson (J. Fluids Struct. vol. 22, 2006, pp. 837–843). The similarity in critical mass between freely rising and elastically mounted bodies is unexpected, as it is known that the addition of streamwise vibration can markedly affect the response and vortex formation in elastically mounted systems, which would be expected to modify the critical mass. However, we show in this paper that the similarity in vortex formation mode (2P) between the freely rising body and the elastically mounted counterpart is consistent with a comparable phase of vortex dynamics, strength of vortices, amplitudes and frequencies of motion and effective added mass (CEA). All of these similarities result in comparable values of critical mass. The principal fact that the 2P mode is observed for the freely rising body is an interesting and consistent result; based on the previous VIV measurements, this is the only mode out of the known set {2S, 2P, 2T} to yield negative effective added mass (CEA < 0), which is a condition for vibration of a freely rising body. In this paper, we deduce that there exists only one possible two degree-of-freedom elastically mounted cylinder system, which can be used to predict the dynamics of freely rising bodies. Because of the symmetry of the vortex wake, this system is one for which the natural frequencies are fNX = 2fNY. Although this seems clear in retrospect, previous attempts to predict critical mass did not take this into account. Implementing such an elastic system, we are able to predict vibration amplitudes and critical mass (m*crit = 0.57) for a freely rising cylinder in reasonable agreement with direct measurements for such a rising body, and even to predict the Lissajous figures representing the streamwise–transverse vibrations for a rising body with very small mass ratios (down to m* = 0.06), unobtainable from our direct measurements.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 662 , 10 November 2010 , pp. 352 - 383
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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