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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 587, Issue -, Pages 217-234Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200700732X
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Motivated by a laboratory experiment reported in Alben, Shelley & Zhang (Nature, vol. 420, 2002, p. 479), we performed simulations of an elastic fibre anchored at its centre point and immersed in a flowing viscous incompressible fluid by the immersed boundary (lB) method. We focus on the influence of some dimensionless parameters on vortex shedding from the fibre for Re in the range [30,800]. Three sets of simulations were designed to investigate the influence of Reynolds number Re, dimensionless fibre flexure modulus K(b), and dimensionless fibre length L on vortex shedding. According to the simulation results, Re, K(b), and L each has a significant influence on the structure of shed vortices. However, Re has little influence on the vortex shedding frequency. With the increase of dimensionless bending modulus, the dimensionless vortex shedding frequency (f(vs)) and the critical Reynolds number (Re(c))decrease approximately as power-law functions. Both f(vs) and Re(c) increase approximately linearly as dimensionless fibre length increases.
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