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 …

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 …

Flow control with rotating cylinders

JC Schulmeister, JM Dahl, GD Weymouth… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
We study the use of small counter-rotating cylinders to control the streaming flow past a
larger main cylinder for drag reduction. In a water tunnel experiment at a Reynolds number …

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 …

Numerical investigation of flow past single and tandem cylindrical bodies in the vicinity of a plane wall

AB Harichandan, A Roy - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2012 - Elsevier
A numerical study has been conducted to investigate the behavior of the vortical wake
created by square and circular cylinders placed in a boundary-layer flow formed over a …

Turbulent wake characteristics for a circular cylinder in proximity to a moving wall

H Jiang, X Ju, Z Guo, L Wang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024 - cambridge.org
This study investigates the scenario of flow past a circular cylinder in proximity to a moving
wall (or equally a body translating in still fluid parallel to a stationary wall). Fifty high-fidelity …

Numerical study of flow past an elliptic cylinder near a free surface

R Subburaj, P Khandelwal, S Vengadesan - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Flow past an elliptic cylinder near a free surface at a Reynolds number of 180 is studied
numerically by varying parameters such as the angle of attack (AOA), aspect ratio (AR) …

Flow past a rotating cylinder translating at different gap heights along a wall

A Rao, MC Thompson, T Leweke, K Hourigan - Journal of Fluids and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The flow past a rotating circular cylinder translating parallel to a wall at different heights is
investigated for Reynolds numbers up to 400 for three discrete rotation rates. In particular …

Heat and fluid flow around two co-rotating cylinders in tandem arrangement

M Darvishyadegari, R Hassanzadeh - International Journal of Thermal …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper discusses on the heat and fluid flow around two co-rotating cylinders in the
tandem arrangement. The non-dimensional rotating speed (RS) varies in the range of 0≤ …