Transition to Periodic Behaviour of Flow Past a Circular Cylinder under the Action of Fluidic Actuation in the Transitional Regime

This study focuses on the numerical investigation of the underlying mechanism of transition from chaotic to periodic dynamics of circular cylinder wake under the action of time-dependent fluidic actuation at the Reynolds number = 2000. The forcing is realized by blowing and suction from the slits lo...

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Main Authors: Wasim Sarwar, Fernando Mellibovsky, Md. Mahbub Alam, Farhan Zafar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/16/5069
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Summary:This study focuses on the numerical investigation of the underlying mechanism of transition from chaotic to periodic dynamics of circular cylinder wake under the action of time-dependent fluidic actuation at the Reynolds number = 2000. The forcing is realized by blowing and suction from the slits located at <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>±</mo><msup><mn>90</mn><mo>∘</mo></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> on the top and bottom surfaces of the cylinder. The inverse period-doubling cascade is the underlying physical mechanism underpinning the wake transition from mild chaos to perfectly periodic dynamics in the spanwise-independent, time-dependent forcing at twice the natural vortex-shedding frequency.
ISSN:1996-1073