Flow past bluff bodies had been a topic of immense interest for engineers and scientists since more than a century. Fluid structure interaction has its potential application in many engineering applications in construction and different aeronautical a...
Flow past bluff bodies had been a topic of immense interest for engineers and scientists since more than a century. Fluid structure interaction has its potential application in many engineering applications in construction and different aeronautical applications. The purpose of this study is to investigate flow phenomena and variation in aerodynamic forces as a result of flow over the bluff bodies. The structures taken for investigation in the present study are square and its different chamfer dimensions. The chamfer ratio was defined as the ratio of chamfer length to the characteristic length of the body. The base cases for both extremes are square and diamond shaped cylinders in which square can be regarded as the body with zero chamfer ratio and diamond shaped as a body with 0.5 chamfer ratio. Six cases between these two baseline cases are considered for this study. Commercial finite volume code ANSYS Fluent is deployed for the present study. Three Reynolds number 100, 500, 2100 and 10,000 were taken for thorough explanation of effect of chamfer ratio on the flow phenomena and aerodynamic forces in current study. Validation and detailed explanation of all the bodies is conducted for Re=100 (laminar regime) and Re=2100(turbulent regime). It is observed that diamond cylinder gives the highest value of the drag coefficient and chamfer ratio=0.1 gives the least value among all the cases. Thus, it can be taken as a design parameter in all the engineering potential applications and it may be regarded as best case which outperforms even in turbulent regime as if its laminar one.