Simulation of vortex dynamics in a cylinder wake by the immersed boundary technique (Q990928)
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Simulation of vortex dynamics in a cylinder wake by the immersed boundary technique (English)
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1 September 2010
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Summary: The dynamics of flow past a circular cylinder is investigated at Reynolds number (Re) between 20 and 3900 using the rectangular mesh. The Re is defined based on the cylinder diameter D and the free-stream velocity \(U_{\infty }\). This is achieved by using the Immersed Boundary (IB) method that helps to impose boundary conditions on a given surface not coinciding with the computational grid. Two interpolation techniques, namely bi-linear proposed by the authors and unidirectional quadratic by Muldoon and Acharya (2005), are compared for both the laminar and the turbulent flow regime. The unsteady Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations are solved using a symmetry-preserving finite-difference scheme of second-order spatial and temporal accuracy. Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) with the dynamic subgrid model are used to resolve the turbulent flow at Re = 1000 and 3900. When compared with experiments, it reveals that the IB method is worth pursuing and both the interpolations generate almost identical results for a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The bi-linear interpolation is easy to implement and take less computational time because of its simplicity.
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immersed boundary method
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LES
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large-eddy simulations
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circular cylinders
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vortex dynamics
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cylinder wake
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laminar flow
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turbulent flow
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