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We study in this work the different kind of patterns which develop in the wake of a flapping foil. The system which makes the foil flap is simple and consists of two pulleys and a motor. The Strouhal number St (associated with the foil frequency) and the Reynolds number Re (associated with the flow velocity) can be continuously varied; the oscillation amplitude \(A_{D}\) can take two values. We localize the regions of existence of the different patterns in the planes (\(St, A_{D}\)) and (Re, St). We conclude that for 140\(\,< Re <\,\)320, the generated structures do not depend upon the Reynolds number.
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Espinosa Ramírez, A., Cros, A. (2014). Wake Patterns Behind a Flapping Foil. In: Klapp, J., Medina, A. (eds) Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00116-6_29
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