Drag and pressure fields for the MHD flow around a circular cylinder at intermediate Reynolds numbers

T. V. S. Sekhar, R. Sivakumar and T. V. R. Ravi Kumar

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2005, vol. 2005, 1-21

Abstract:

Steady incompressible flow around a circular cylinder in an external magnetic field that is aligned with fluid flow direction is studied for Re (Reynolds number) up to 40 and the interaction parameter in the range 0 ≤ N ≤ 15 (or 0 ≤ M ≤ 30 ), where M is the Hartmann number related to N by the relation M = 2 N Re , using finite difference method. The pressure-Poisson equation is solved to find pressure fields in the flow region. The multigrid method with defect correction technique is used to achieve the second-order accurate solution of complete nonlinear Navier-Stokes equations. It is found that the boundary layer separation at rear stagnation point for Re = 10 is suppressed completely when N < 1 and it started growing again when N ≥ 9 . For Re = 20 and 40, the suppression is not complete and in addition to that the rear separation bubble started increasing when N ≥ 3 . The drag coefficient decreases for low values of N ( < 0.1 ) and then increases with increase of N . The pressure drag coefficient, total drag coefficient, and pressure at rear stagnation point vary with N . It is also found that the upstream and downstream pressures on the surface of the cylinder increase for low values of N ( < 0.1 ) and rear pressure inversion occurs with further increase of N . These results are in agreement with experimental findings.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1155/JAM.2005.183

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