A review of rotating cylinder wake transitions

A Rao, A Radi, JS Leontini, MC Thompson… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent work on the flow past a rotating cylinder is reviewed and further investigated at low
Reynolds numbers. The various two-and three-dimensional transitions that occur as the …

Bluff bodies and wake–wall interactions

MC Thompson, T Leweke… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
This review surveys the dramatic variations in wake structures and flow transitions, in
addition to body forces, that appear as the motion of bluff bodies through a fluid occurs …

Low-Reynolds-number wakes of elliptical cylinders: from the circular cylinder to the normal flat plate

MC Thompson, A Radi, A Rao, J Sheridan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
While the wake of a circular cylinder and, to a lesser extent, the normal flat plate have been
studied in considerable detail, the wakes of elliptic cylinders have not received similar …

Harnessing electrical power from vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder

AK Soti, MC Thompson, J Sheridan… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sources are likely to become essential due to continuously increasing
energy demands together with the depletion of natural resources that are currently used for …

Numerical investigation of particle–particle and particle–wall collisions in a viscous fluid

AM Ardekani, RH Rangel - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2008 - cambridge.org
The dynamics of particle–particle collisions and the bouncing motion of a particle colliding
with a wall in a viscous fluid is numerically investigated. The dependence of the effective …

The flow past a circular cylinder translating at different heights above a wall

A Rao, MC Thompson, T Leweke, K Hourigan - Journal of Fluids and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The flow past a circular cylinder moving through a fluid at different heights above a plane no-
slip boundary is investigated numerically for Reynolds numbers≤ 200. The gap height is …

Three-dimensionality in the wake of a rotating cylinder in a uniform flow

A Rao, J Leontini, MC Thompson… - Journal of Fluid …, 2013 - cambridge.org
The wake of a rotating circular cylinder in a free stream is investigated for Reynolds
numbers, the three-dimensional transition scenario is similar to that of the non-rotating …

Forced convection from a circular cylinder in pulsating flow with and without the presence of porous media

GF Al-Sumaily, MC Thompson - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper examines the changes to the flow and heat transfer induced by a non-zero mean
sinusoidally varying flow past a cylinder. This is done by simulating steady and pulsatile …

Wake states and frequency selection of a streamwise oscillating cylinder

JS Leontini, DL Jacono, MC Thompson - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
This paper presents the results of an in-depth study of the flow past a streamwise oscillating
cylinder, examining the impact of varying the amplitude and frequency of the oscillation, and …

Vorticity generation and conservation for two-dimensional interfaces and boundaries

M Brøns, MC Thompson, T Leweke… - Journal of fluid …, 2014 - cambridge.org
The generation, redistribution and, importantly, conservation of vorticity and circulation is
studied for incompressible Newtonian fluids in planar and axisymmetric geometries. A …