Sarallah Abbasi
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of aspect ratio on vortex shedding, and transient flow-induced noise over a rectangular cylinder is presented. The freestream velocity is assumed 50 m/s. URANS equations with turbulence model are employed to flow analysis. Aerodynamic noise ...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of aspect ratio on vortex shedding, and transient flow-induced noise over a rectangular cylinder is presented. The freestream velocity is assumed 50 m/s. URANS equations with turbulence model are employed to flow analysis. Aerodynamic noise calculations are performed using the FW-H analogy. The rectangular cross-section with various lengths and widths is considered. A comparison of the results extracted in the present study with the experimental results of other references indicates the accuracy of the present research. The aspect ratios from 0.6 to 6 (equivalent to Reynolds numbers from 2.5 × 104 to 5.6 × 104) are studied. The simulations can be divided into two categories. In the first category, the ratio of length to width (R = B/H) is less than one, and in the second one, this ratio is greater than one. In the first case, noise is reduced by a relatively low slope. But in the second condition, the behavior of noise is different in various ratios and the slope of noise variations is high. The flow structure is also discussed in this paper. It is founded that for the first category, by increasing the aspect ratio, both the fluctuations and aerodynamic forces are reduced, and the longitudinal wake zone is increased. But in the second category, fluctuations of flow may be increased or decreased in various aspect ratios.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Sajad Rezazadeh; Mohammadreza Mataji Amirrud; Mohammad Raad; Davod Abbasinejad
Abstract
A numerical simulation of laminar fluid flow and heat transfer over built-in cylinders in a channel is presented. Effects of cylinders that located in a rectangular channel with constant wall temperature on flow and heat transfer have been investigated by the drag coefficient on cylinders wall, skin-friction ...
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A numerical simulation of laminar fluid flow and heat transfer over built-in cylinders in a channel is presented. Effects of cylinders that located in a rectangular channel with constant wall temperature on flow and heat transfer have been investigated by the drag coefficient on cylinders wall, skin-friction factor on channel wall, Strouhal number, pumping factor, Nusselt number, and Performance Index (PI) factor, which denote the heat transfer in terms of the pressure drop. Results are validated by the most reliable published works in the literature. Effects of Reynolds number and blockage ratio (β) for the equilateral triangular cylinder for 120≤Re≤180 and 0.15≤β≤0.55 on flow and heat transfer are investigated with more details. Results indicated that by increasing Re for constant blockage ratio, the drag coefficient, Strouhal number, and Nusselt number increase; but the skin-friction coefficient, pumping factor, and PI factor decrease subsequently. Additionally, with an increase in blockage ratio at constant Re, the drag coefficient, skin-friction coefficient, pumping factor, and Strouhal number grow up; but Nusselt number diminishes and PI factor has an optimum range. Furthermore, results reveal that variation in blockage ratio has more significant effects on the flow and heat transfer than variation in Reynolds number.