The near wake of stationary and transversely oscillating square section cylinders with different corner radii are studied by numerical method to investigate the influence of corner radius. Six models, R/D=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (R is the corner ra...
The near wake of stationary and transversely oscillating square section cylinders with different corner radii are studied by numerical method to investigate the influence of corner radius. Six models, R/D=0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (R is the corner radius and D is the characteristic dimension of the body) at Re=500 and Re=5200 were studied. CFD software CFD-ACE was applied to simulate the flow past a cylinder with different R/D cases both at Re=500 with laminar model and Re=5200 with LES model. In stationary condition, the numerical results of St, C_(D) and C_(L) at R/D=0 and R/D=0.5 were compared with experiments to prove the feasibility and also investigate the trend of flow phenomena by the various radius corners. In oscillating condition, fe=fo (fe is exciting frequency and fo is natural vortex shedding frequency) and A_(m)/D=0.2 at Re=500 was applied and compared the phenomena of the stationary cases. The calculated results for Re=5200 with A_(m)/D=0.16 and fe=fo oscillation cases was compared with the experiment results of Strouhal number, fixed point velocity and vortex shedding phenomenon. It was found that the corner effect on square cylinder significantly influences the flow features around the cylinder both in stationary and oscillating conditions. Results indicate that, as R/D ratio is increased, the Strouhal number is increased, the minimum pressure point on the cylinder surface is moved downstream. The calculated Strouhal numbers are same for stationary and oscillation cases but the results of oscillation cases induce that the minimum pressure point moves upstream, vortex oscillation area is widen, C_(D) and C_(L) is increased than stationary cases. The calculated results of R/D=0.2 and R/D=0.3 in both stationary and oscillating condition have lower C_(D) and C_(L.) than other cases.