Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, fluid flow around bluff bodies is confined between two
parallel walls. This paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow …

A review of cylinder corner effect on flow and heat transfer

MM Alam - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the literature and to impart a
perspective on the current status and future directions for fundamentals of flow around and …

Dependence of square cylinder wake on Reynolds number

H Bai, MM Alam - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The wake of a square cylinder is investigated for Reynolds number Re< 10 7. Two-
dimensional (2D) laminar simulation and three-dimensional (3D) large-eddy simulation are …

Turbulent flow around a square cylinder at Reynolds number 22,000: A DNS study

FX Trias, A Gorobets, A Oliva - Computers & Fluids, 2015 - Elsevier
The turbulent flow around a square cylinder at Reynolds number 22, 000 (based on the
cylinder diameter and the inflow velocity) is studied by means of direct numerical simulation …

Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces

X Fang, MF Tachie, K Dow - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The spatio-temporal characteristics of turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff
bodies with different undersurface roughness conditions are studied using a time-resolved …

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamic noise from a high-speed train bogie with complex geometry under a leading car

Y He, D Thompson, Z Hu - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Among the various aerodynamic noise sources associated with high-speed trains, the bogie
regions, and particularly the leading bogie, contribute most to the overall noise. To control …

Effects of streamwise aspect ratio on the spatio-temporal characteristics of flow around rectangular cylinders

S Kumahor, MF Tachie - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2023 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows over rectangular cylinders with streamwise aspect ratios (AR) of 1, 2 and 4
were experimentally studied using time-resolved particle image velocimetry at a Reynolds …

A LES study of the flow interference between tandem square cylinder pairs

A Sohankar - Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2014 - Springer
The results of an investigation on the interference effects of the tandem square cylinders
exposed to a uniform flow are presented in this paper. Time-dependent and three …

Influence of the bluff body shear layers on the wake of a square prism in a turbulent flow

DC Lander, CW Letchford, M Amitay, GA Kopp - Physical Review Fluids, 2016 - APS
Despite a substantial body of literature dealing with the effects of free-stream turbulence
(FST) on two-dimensional square prism, there remain some open questions regarding the …

Experimental and high-order LES analysis of the flow in near-wall region of a square cylinder

M Minguez, C Brun, R Pasquetti, E Serre - … Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2011 - Elsevier
A coupled experimental/numerical analysis of turbulent flow past a square cylinder is
performed at the ERCOFTAC Reynolds number Re= U∞ D/ν= 21,400, where U∞ is the …