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The effect of a uniform through-surface flow on a cylinder and sphere

Klettner, CA; Eames, I; Semsarzadeh, S; Nicolle, A; (2016) The effect of a uniform through-surface flow on a cylinder and sphere. Journal of Fluid Mechanics , 793 pp. 798-839. 10.1017/jfm.2016.128. Green open access

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Abstract

The effect of a uniform through-surface flow (velocity ) on a rigid and stationary cylinder and sphere (radius ) fixed in a free stream (velocity ) is analysed analytically and numerically. The flow is characterised by a dimensionless blow velocity and Reynolds number , where is the kinematic viscosity). High resolution numerical calculations are compared against theoretical predictions over the range and for planar flow past a cylinder and axisymmetric flow past a sphere. For , the flow is viscously dominated in a thin boundary layer of thickness adjacent to the rigid surface which develops in a time ; the surface vorticity scales as for a cylinder and sphere. A boundary layer analysis is developed to analyse the unsteady viscous forces. Numerical results show that the surface pressure and vorticity distribution within the boundary layer agrees with a steady state analysis. The flow downstream of the body is irrotational so the wake volume flux, , is zero and the drag force is , where is the density of the fluid and is the normal flux through the body surface. The drag coefficient is therefore or for a cylinder or sphere, respectively. A dissipation argument is applied to analyse the drag force; the rate of working of the drag force is balanced by viscous dissipation, flux of stagnation pressure and rate of work by viscous stresses due to sucking. At large , the drag force is largely determined by viscous dissipation for a cylinder, with a weak contribution by the normal viscous stresses, while for a sphere, only of the drag force is determined by viscous dissipation with the remaining due to the flux of stagnation pressure through the sphere surface. When , the boundary layer thickness initially grows linearly with time as vorticity is blown away from the rigid surface. The vorticity in the boundary layer is weakly dependent on viscous effects and scales as or for a cylinder and sphere, respectively. For large blow velocity, the vorticity is swept into two well-separated shear layers and the maximum vorticity decreases due to diffusion. The drag force is related to the vorticity distribution on the body surface and an approximate expression can be derived by considering the first term of a Fourier expansion in the surface vorticity. It is found that the drag coefficient for a cylinder (corrected for flow boundedness) is weakly dependent on while for a sphere, decreases with .

Type: Article
Title: The effect of a uniform through-surface flow on a cylinder and sphere
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.128
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.128
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Boundary Layers, Boundary layer structure Boundary Layers, Boundary Layers
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061753
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