UFR 2-10 Best Practice Advice
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Key Physics
The flow past finite height circular cylinders mounted on a flat plate is very complex as described in some detail in the Introduction and as illustrated in Fig. 1. The flow is highly three-dimensional with an interaction of various vortex systems. There is generally unsteady vortex shedding behind the cylinder unless the cylinder height is rather small (h/D below 2). The vortex shedding that occurs in the test cases considered (h/D = 2.5 and 5) is strongly influenced by the end effects, and in particular the effects of the free-end at the cylinder top.
Contributed by: Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Wolfgang Rodi, — Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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