Open AccessStudy of flow through and around a square cylinder array
Author(s) -
Yuhao Fang,
Zhigang Yang,
Yuan Ma,
Qiliang Li
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1600/1/012029
Subject(s) - wake , vortex , vortex shedding , turbulence , square (algebra) , mechanics , cylinder , physics , flow (mathematics) , transverse plane , geometry , mathematics , reynolds number , engineering , structural engineering
This paper performs the effect of solid volume fractions (0.09< SVF<0.64) on the flow through and around a square cylinder array at Re=63832. A delayed vortex shedding occurs in 8x8 array (SVF) while the Strhoul number is slightly higher than the solid one. For the intermediate SVF (0.25<SVF<0.49), the separated shear layers (SSLs) contain large-scale turbulent eddies but their ends cannot interact to generate wake billows. The maximum of root mean square of transverse velocity along wake center-line decreases monotonously as SVF decreases, and several ways of defining the spatial extent of the wake region are discussed.