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Effect of nose shape on separation bubble and surface pressure on a cylinder in axial flow

  • Q. Sun
  • , Md Mahbub Alam*
  • , C. W. Wong
  • , Y. Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

The flow characteristics is experimentally studied over the leading edge of a circular cylinder with blunt, conical, and hemispherical nose shapes, for a range of Reynolds number ReD = 2.5 × 103− 4.2 × 104. While mean and fluctuating pressure (Cp, Cp′) around the leading edge are measured with a pressure transducer, PIV and flow-visualization experiments are performed to assimilate how an increase in ReD influences the shear layer reattachment length xR, shear layer transition length xTr, and bubble width W. The results reveal that xR,xTr, and W all shrinking significantly with ReD up to ReD =104. Their shrinkage is however inconsequential for ReD >104. At a given ReD, when the nose changes as blunt, conical and hemispherical, xR and W shorten, but xTr enlarges. Following the separation bubble size, Cp and Cp′ in the bubble are highly sensitive to ReD for ReD <104, but less for ReD >104.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control - Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control
EditorsYu Zhou, A.D. Lucey , Yang Liu, Lixi Huang
PublisherSpringer Heidelberg
Pages383-388
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783662488669
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd Symposium on Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control,FSSIC 2015 - Perth, Australia
Duration: 5 Jul 20179 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
ISSN (Print)2195-4356
ISSN (Electronic)2195-4364

Conference

Conference3rd Symposium on Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control,FSSIC 2015
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityPerth
Period5/07/179/07/17

Keywords

  • Axial flow
  • Cylinder
  • Fluctuating pressure
  • Separation bubble

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