SPH simulation of turbulent flow past a high-frequency in-line oscillating cylinder near free-surface

Jafar Ghazanfarian, Roozbeh Saghatchi () and Mofid Gorji-Bandpy ()
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Jafar Ghazanfarian: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Zanjan, University Blvd. 45371-38791, Zanjan, Iran
Roozbeh Saghatchi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zanjan, University Blvd. 45371-38791, Zanjan, Iran
Mofid Gorji-Bandpy: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Babol, Iran

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2016, vol. 27, issue 12, 1-23

Abstract: This paper studies a two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow past a circular cylinder with in-line oscillation close to a free-surface. The sub-particle scale (SPS) turbulence model of a Lagrangian particle-based smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method has been used to solve the full Navier–Stokes equations together with the continuity equation. The accuracy of numerical code has been verified using two cases consisting of an oscillating cylinder placed in the stationary fluid, and flow over a fixed cylinder close to a free-surface. Simulations are conducted for the Froude number of 0.3, the Reynolds numbers of 40 and 80, various gap ratios for fully-submerged and half-submerge cylinders. The dimensionless frequency and amplitude of oscillating have been chosen as 0.5, 0.8 and 10, 15, respectively. The selection of such a high oscillating frequency causes the flow regime to become turbulent. It is seen that the gap ratio defined as the ratio of cylinder distance from free-surface and its diameter, strongly affects the flow pattern and the magnitude of the drag and lift coefficients. The jet-like flow (the region above the cylinder and beneath the free-surface) creation is discussed in detail and showed that the strength of this jet-like flow is weakened when the gap ratio shrinks. It is seen that by decreasing the gap ratio, the lift and drag coefficients increase and decrease, respectively. It is found that the Reynolds number has an inverse effect on the drag and lift coefficients. Also, it is concluded that by increasing the amplitude of oscillation the drag coefficient increases.

Keywords: WSPH method; free-surface flow; turbulent flow; oscillating cylinder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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