Investigation of Incompressible Flow Past Two Circular Cylinders of Different Diameters
Abstract
A two - dimensional Navier-Stokes solver based on finite volume approach using a boundary-fitted curvilinear structured O-grid has been developed to obtain details of unconfined flow past cylinders at low Reynolds number of 100 and 200 based on diameter. Computations made on a single cylinder with smaller domain adopting the convective boundary conditions captured most of the flow features. This concept of a smaller domain, when used to capture the highly complex flow field around two cylinders of the same diameter placed in tandem at a Reynolds number of 200 showed reasonable results. The details of the flow field around two cylinders of different diameters placed at a typical distance of 3L and Reynolds number of 100 could be well captured adopting smaller domain concept. It is observed that the change in diameter of upstream cylinder strongly influences the overall flow field and the drag of the downstream cylinder.
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