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JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 340-357Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2014.07.002
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Wake-induced vibration; Circular cylinders; Vortex wake; Flow interference
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- Imperial College (Dept. of Aeronautics)
- CAPES Brazilian Ministry of Education [2668-04-1]
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The wake-induced vibration (WIV) of two staggered cylinder with two degrees of freedom (2-dot) has been investigated by experiments in a water channel for Reynolds number between 2000 and 25 000. The streamwise separation was fixed to 4 diameters and the lateral separation varied between 0 and 3 diameters for tandem and staggered configurations. Results are presented in the form of trajectories of motion and dynamic response curves of displacements, frequencies and force coefficients. Excitation caused by the WIV mechanism is found to get weaker as the initial position of the downstream cylinder is increased from the centreline of the wake (tandem arrangement) towards the sides. For a lateral separation of 3 diameters wake interference was already found to be negligible. Evidence of a type of wake-stiffness concept is also observed to occur for 2-dof WIV in tandem arrangement, especially for higher reduced velocities. A similar mechanism may also be occurring for staggered arrangements around the centreline. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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