Experimental Study of Frequency Behavior for a Circular Cylinder behind an Airfoil

Authors: S. Bajalan, A. Shadaram, N. Hedayat, A. Shams Taleghani

Abstract:

The interaction between wakes of bluff body and airfoil have profound influences on system performance in many industrial applications, e.g., turbo-machinery and cooling fan. The present work investigates the effect of configuration include; airfoil-s angle of attack, transverse and inline spacing of the models, on frequency behavior of the cylinder-s near-wake. The experiments carried on under subcritical flow regime, using the hot-wire anemometry (HWA). The relationship between the Strouhal numbers and arrangements provide an insight into the global physical processes of wake interaction and vortex shedding.

Keywords: Airfoil, Cylinder, Strouhal, Wake interaction

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1078273

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