A review of bluff body wakes

JF Derakhshandeh, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The application of an unsteady viscous flow around a bluff body has covered a wide range
of scientific fields. This paper reviews the wakes of different cross-sectional bluff bodies …

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 …

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 …

Numerical studies of laminar flow over two tandem elliptical cylinders using Ramanujan approximation

JF Derakhshandeh, N Gharib - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2021 - Springer
This paper studies a laminar flow over tandem elliptical cylinders at Re= 200. While the
aspect ratio (AR) of the upstream cylinder varies from AR= a_ 1 a 1/b_ 1 b 1= 0.25 to 2.00 …

Flows past rotating cylinders next to a wall

A Rao, BE Stewart, MC Thompson, T Leweke… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional simulations are used to investigate the flow past rotating circular cylinders
near a wall in the low Reynolds number regime (20≤ Re≤ 750). For the single cylinder …

Flow dynamics in the wake of a rectangular cylinder near a moving wall

S Tanweer, A Dewan, S Sanghi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Dynamics of the three-dimensional flow past a rectangular cylinder placed near a moving
wall is studied for different values of the aspect-ratio (0.5≤ AR≤ 2.0) for a constant value of …

Steady flow around a square cylinder near a plane boundary

F Yang, Z Zhou, G Tang, L Lu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Steady flow around a square cylinder placed near a plane wall boundary is investigated
experimentally in the present work covering the range of Reynolds number of Re= 7.34× 10 …

Influence of wall proximity on flow around two tandem circular cylinders

XK Wang, JX Zhang, Z Hao, B Zhou, SK Tan - Ocean Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
An experimental study was conducted to investigate the flow around two tandem cylinders
placed near and parallel to a plane wall. The Reynolds number based on the cylinder …

Transitions in the unsteady wakes and aerodynamic characteristics of the flow past three square cylinders aligned inline

SU Islam, WS Abbasi, ZC Ying - Aerospace science and technology, 2016 - Elsevier
A numerical study is performed to analyze the effect of low Reynolds numbers (Re) and gap
spacings (g) on the flow around three square cylinders aligned inline using the multi …

Effect of a wall on the wake dynamics of an infinite square cylinder

M Samani, DJ Bergstrom - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the influence of a solid wall on the wake structure of an
infinite cylinder of square cross-section when it is placed in proximity to the wall. Three …