Unsteady flow around two square cylinders in staggered arrangements

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Mahir, N.
Altac, Z.
Unver, E.
Pargan, A. R.
Gelgec, M.
Cebi, F.

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International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

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Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Turkey, 19-21 July, 2010.
In this study, the flow around two staggered square cylinders, placed in a uniform flow field, has been studied. The numerical simulations have been performed by use of a commercial CFD software Fluent. The Reynolds number, defined as a function of cylinder width D, has been chosen as 100 and 200. In the simulations, the dimensionless distance P/D, between the cylinder centers was changed from 2 to 5, and the incidence angle 8 also has been changed from 0' to 90' by 25' increments. In order to evaluate the flow field, isovorticity curves were obtained at different values of dimensionless distance P/D and incidence angle 8. The deviation of the mean drag coefficients and of the square root values of the lift coefficient with P/D and 8 also determined. The power spectrums of the lift coefficient have been obtained for different flow fields.

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Fluent, Isovorticity curves, Flow around square cylinders

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Mahir, N, Altac, Z, Unver, E, Pargan, AR, Gelgec, M & Cebi, F 2010, 'Unsteady flow around two square cylinders in staggered arrangements', Paper presented to the 7th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Turkey, 19-21 July 2010.