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Three-dimensional evolution of vortices and early features of coherent structure in the turbulent wake behind a 2-D circular cylinder

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3-D evolution of Kármán vortex filaments and vortex filaments in braid regions in the turbulent wake of a 2-D circular cylinder is investigated numerically based on inviscid vortex dynamics by analyzing the response of the initially 2-D spanwise vortex filaments to periodic spanwise disturbance of varying magnitude, wavelength and initial phase angles. Our results reveal a kind of 3-D vortex system in the wake which consists of large scale horseshoe-shaped vortices and small scale γ-shaped vortex filaments as well as vortex loops. The mechanism and the dynamic process about the generation of streamwise vortical structure and the 3-D coherent structure are reported.

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  1. Wu Zuobing

    Present address: Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

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  1. LNM, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Ling Guocan & Wu Zuobing

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currently published in the Chinese Edition of Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol.25, No.3, 1993

The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Basic Research Project “Nonlinear Science”

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Guocan, L., Zuobing, W. Three-dimensional evolution of vortices and early features of coherent structure in the turbulent wake behind a 2-D circular cylinder. Acta Mech Sinica 9, 223–232 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02486799

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