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Velocity spikes in separated flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

F. B. Hanson ,
S. H. Kozak  and
P. D. Richardson
F. B. Hanson
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
S. H. Kozak
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
P. D. Richardson
Affiliation:
Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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Abstract

In a recent study related to transition in the wake flows behind circular cylinders held transversely to an air stream, Bloor (1964) has reported the observation of velocity ‘spikes’ and attributed these to the close proximity to the hot wire of vortex centres on the opposite side of the von Kármán vortex street. Further observations of spikes are reported here, and the characteristics of their distribution indicate that other explanations of their form must be found. Some idealized flows are considered, and it is concluded that observations of spikiness within the hot-wire output may be accountable in terms of large-scale distributions of vorticity within the flow convected past the wire, the distributions being reasonable representations of a separated flow. The observations also provide some evidence that small vortices of Strouhal frequency exist on the inside of the coherent separated shear layer, and this may assist in the understanding of the feed-back mechanism where by the von Kármán street establishes itself as a self-perpetuating phenomenon.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , May 1966 , pp. 43 - 50
Copyright
© 1966 Cambridge University Press

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