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Spatiotemporal spectral analysis of a forced cylinder wake
Juan D'Adamo1, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, José Eduardo Wesfreid
1Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Buenos Aires (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. jdadamo@fi.uba.ar
Abstract:
The wake of a circular cylinder performing rotary oscillations is studied using hydrodynamic tunnel experiments at Re=100. Two-dimensional particle image velocimetry on the midplane perpendicular to the axis of a cylinder is used to characterize the spatial development of the flow and its stability properties. The lock-in phenomenon that determines the boundaries between regions of the forcing parameter space where the wake is globally unstable or convectively unstable [see Thiria and Wesfreid, J. Fluids Struct. 25, 654 (2009) for a review] is scrutinized using the experimental data. A method based on the analysis of power density spectra of the flow allows us to give a detailed description of the forced wake, shedding light on the energy distribution in the different frequency components and in particular on a cascade-like mechanism evidenced for a high amplitude of the forcing oscillation. In addition, a calculation of the drag from the velocity field is performed, allowing us to relate the resulting force on the body to the wake properties.
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