Smart hybrid VIV control of a linearly sprung cylinder using an internal semi-active NES-based vibration absorber coupled with two active rotating wake-control rods

SM Hasheminejad, Y Masoumi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Extensive two dimensional CFD simulations were carried out to investigate the hybrid
active/semi-active cross-flow vortex induced vibration (VIV) suppression of a flexibly …

Large eddy simulations of flow past an inclined circular cylinder: Insights into the three-dimensional effect

G Li, W Li, MJ Janocha, G Yin, MC Ong - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The flow past an inclined cylinder is simulated using large eddy simulations to study the
three-dimensional wake flow effects on the forces on the cylinder at Re= 3900. Four …

VIV of two rigidly coupled side-by-side cylinders at subcritical Re

Z Yu, E Wang, Y Bao, Q Xiao, X Li, A Incecik… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cross-flow vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of two rigidly coupled circular cylinders in side-by-
side arrangement at a Reynolds number of 1000 is numerically investigated using direct …

Large-eddy simulations of flow past a circular cylinder near a free surface

F Zhao, R Wang, H Zhu, H Ping, Y Bao, D Zhou… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Three-dimensional large-eddy simulations are carried out for flow past a cylinder beneath a
deformable free surface at a fixed Reynolds number of Re= 7550. The results are examined …

Control of vortex-induced vibration of an elastically mounted cylinder with a pair of porous rods

J Chen, J Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, the control of vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of an elastically mounted cylinder
with a pair of porous rods is numerically investigated at a Reynolds number of 150. To …

Investigation of the combined effect of control rods and forced rotation on a cylinder

W Chen, Y Bao, W Chai, J Li, CK Rheem, Y Lin, X Li - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A novel structure combining the application of control rods and forced rotation on a cylinder
is proposed based on the cylindrical vibration suppression, and the combined structure is …

Parameter optimization of open-loop control of a circular cylinder by simplified reinforcement learning

P Lai, R Wang, W Zhang, H Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Open-loop control is commonly considered an efficient approach in flow control, in which the
search for control parameters with excellent performance is mostly carried out by grid …

Surrogate model-based deep reinforcement learning for experimental study of active flow control of circular cylinder

X Dong, H Hong, X Deng, W Zhong, G Hu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The flow around a circular cylinder is a classical problem in fluid mechanics, and the
reduction of drag and lift has been a long-standing research focus in flow control. In this …

Wake suppression of a cylinder immersed in turbulence using rotating rods

B Song, Y Bao, K Zhang, D Zhou, Y Cao - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, we conducted three-dimensional direct numerical simulations to investigate the
control performance of the free-stream turbulence past a circular cylinder with two small …

On the three-dimensional wake flow behind a normal flat plate

MC Ong, G Yin - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulations are carried out for
uniform flow past a normal flat plate with two semicircular ends to investigate the three …