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The separation of flow past a cylinder in a rotating system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

Lee-Or Merkine  and
Alexander Solan
Lee-Or Merkine
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Alexander Solan
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Abstract

The flow past a cylinder bounded by parallel planes in a rotating frame is treated in terms of a nonlinear Stewartson layer. It is shown that separation is strongly dependent on the ratio of the Rossby number to the square root of the Ekman number, covering the whole range from fully attached flow to the classical non-rotating separated flow past a cylinder. The results are in agreement with published experimental observations.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 92 , Issue 2 , 28 May 1979 , pp. 381 - 392
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© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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