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Investigation of shedding patterns and its influences on lift performances of a cylinder bundle in cross flow

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Shedding vortices in cross flow are of much practical importance in the analysis of flow induced vibrations of a steam generator. However, studies of shedding vortex are still few in present, especially in shedding patterns and its influences on lift performances. In this paper, five basic shedding patterns were investigated by numerical simulations of a 2D unsteady flow around a bundle with 253 cylinders. The numerical results clearly demonstrated that flow in line is the most common pattern. On the hand, the other four shedding patterns, cross in line, cross near line near, cross near line far and cross far line near, appear randomly. Influences of shedding vortices on lift performances were concluded as lift enhancement, lift pit and lift lag. These numerical results can provide a basic knowledge of shedding vortices for cylinders and can precisely quantify their influences on unsteady lift performances.

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The authors would like to thank the referees for their good and valuable suggestions which improved this paper greatly. The work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (51705459) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

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  1. College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, China

    Di Tang, Shiyi Bao & Lijia Luo

  2. High Speed Aerodynamic Institute, China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang, 621000, China

    Binbin Lv

  3. Shenyang Aircraft Design and Research Institute of AVIC, Shenyang, 110035, China

    Hao Cui

  4. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88001, USA

    Min Xu

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Di Tang received his Ph.D. degree in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Currently, he is a researcher at Zhejiang University of Technology, China. His research interests include the fluid induced vibrations, vortex flow and bioinspired materials.

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Tang, D., Bao, S., Lv, B. et al. Investigation of shedding patterns and its influences on lift performances of a cylinder bundle in cross flow. J Mech Sci Technol 33, 2651–2663 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-019-0513-9

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