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Passive control of the flow around a square cylinder using porous media
Author(s) -
Bruneau CharlesHenri,
Mortazavi Iraj
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.756
Subject(s) - porous medium , drag , mechanics , boundary layer , turbulence , compressibility , porosity , parametric statistics , flow control (data) , cylinder , flow (mathematics) , materials science , physics , mathematics , geometry , engineering , composite material , telecommunications , statistics
The passive control of bluff body flows using porous media is investigated by means of the penalization method. This method is used to create intermediate porous media between solid obstacles and the fluid in order to modify the boundary layer behaviour. The study covers a wide range of two‐dimensional flows from low transitional flow to fully established turbulence by direct numerical simulation of incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. A parametric study is performed to illustrate the effect of the porous layer permeability and thickness on the passive control. The numerical results reveal the ability of porous media to both regularize the flow and to reduce the drag forces up to 30%. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.