Fluid-Induced Loading of Cantilevered Circular Cylinders in a Low-Turbulence Uniform Flow. Part 1: Mean Loading with Aspect Ratios in the Range 4 to 30

✍ Scribed by T.A. Fox; G.S. West

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 430 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-9746
• DOI: 10.1006/jfls.1993.1001

✦ Synopsis

Part 1 presents details of an investigation into the mean loading of smooth, cantilevered circular cylinders immersed in a low-turbulence uniform flow. Experiments were performed in a wind tunnel at a Reynolds number of (4.4 \times 10^{4}) for aspect ratios in the range 4 to 30 . Mean surface pressures and vortex-shedding frequencies were measured, from which the local mean pressure drag and Strouhal number were calculated at various spanwise locations. The results reveal the extent of the disturbance induced by the flow around the free-end of a cantilever and the existence of a significant aspect ratio of 13.