On vortex shedding behind a circular disk

J. J. Miau, T. S. Leu, T. W. Liu, J. H. Chou

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Abstract

Experiments were performed for individual realizations of the vortex shedding process behind a circular disk at Reynolds numbers of 103-105, at which periodic vortex shedding prevails in the wake. The phase differences regarding the individual vortex shedding structures detected at multiple circumferential locations in the wake were obtained by analyzing the hot-wire signals with a conditional-sampling scheme. The phase differences of vortex shedding detected at circumferential positions 90 apart show a wide scatter, but the anti-phase character is largely preserved in the individual vortex shedding process as detected at circumferential locations 180○ apart. The randomness of phase differences involved in the vortex shedding process is noted to be essential in order to satisfy the axisymmetric property of the global flow.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)225-233
Number of pages9
JournalExperiments in Fluids
Volume23
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1997 Jul

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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