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JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 214-233Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.08.002
Keywords
Reynolds number; Flow separation; Rounded corners; Square section cylinder; Bluff body
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The influence of the angle of incidence and corner radius on the aerodynamics of square section cylinders is studied by means of wind tunnel experiments. Two different corner radii (r/D = 0.16 and 0.29) were investigated at three angles of incidence (alpha = 0 degrees, -22.5 degrees and -45 degrees). Steady and unsteady global forces and local surface pressures were measured in the high-pressure wind tunnel in Gottingen. The Reynolds number was varied up to values as high as 12x10(6), thereby spanning the known flow state regimes up to high transcritical. The results demonstrated that a decrease of the cylinder's bluffness induced lower maximum drag coefficients and r.m.s. values, as well as higher Strouhal numbers in all flow state regimes. Furthermore, the critical Reynolds numbers shifted to significantly lower values. For the cylinder configurations at alpha = 0 degrees no upper transition or transcritical flow state was present up to Re-D = 12 million. A decrease in the angle of incidence resulted in a significant reduction of the length of the supercritical flow state, a shift of the drag force, Strouhal number and base pressure to higher values and an increase of the critical Reynolds numbers. The cylinders at non-zero angles of incidence all displayed a clear critical flow state, at which two discontinuous transitions were observed, accompanied by jumps in the C-D and C-L values and the Strouhal number. Only three out of six studied configurations experienced hysteresis, where for the high corner radius configuration at alpha = 0 degrees a particularly broad hysteresis effect was measured. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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