Confinement effects on flows past an in-duct rectangular bluff body with semi-circular leading edge

K. F. Yu, Chi Kin Randolph Leung, Z. B. Lu, Li Cheng, H. Y H Chan

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Abstract

This paper reports a numerical study of a two-dimensional time-dependent viscous flow past a rectangular bluff body with a Reynolds number Re=6 073 based on bluff body height installed in a flow duct. The leading edge of the bluff body takes a semi-circular profile. The governing equations of the flow are solved with large-eddy simulation (LES) using a commercial computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT. The focus of the present study is to explore the effects of the ratio of the height of the bluff body H and the separation D between the bluff body and the duct wall surface. The numerical simulations are validated with the results obtained from a separate wind-tunnel experiment. Numerical simulations with various D/H are carried out. The numerical results show that the mean and instantaneous flow quantities are strongly dependent on the ratio D/H. The suppression effects of vortex shedding by the neighboring duct wall are highlighted by comparing the unsteady flow structure topology, dominant Strouhal number, lift and drag forces, etc. The mechanism for the suppression of vortex shedding suppression and its variation with D/H are analyzed, and its relevance to generation of flow inducing noise by a bluff body in a flow duct is discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Progresses in Fluid Dynamics Research - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Fluid Mechanics, ICFM VI
Pages154-156
Number of pages3
Volume1376
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Nov 2011
EventProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics: Recent Progresses in Fluid Dynamics Research, ICFM VI - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 30 Jun 20113 Jul 2011

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Fluid Mechanics: Recent Progresses in Fluid Dynamics Research, ICFM VI
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period30/06/113/07/11

Keywords

  • bluff body
  • CFD
  • duct flow

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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