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摘要
This study puts forward an active control method for circular cylinder flow by placing two small affiliated rotating cylinders adjacent to the main cylinder, and their effects on the drag and lift forces acting on the main cylinder as well as the heat transfer effectiveness are numerically investigated. According to the diameter of the main cylinder the Reynolds number is chosen as Re=200. The well-proven finite volume method is employed for the calculation. The code is validated by comparing the present computed results of flow passing an isolated rotating cylinder with those available from the literature. To describe the present control model, two parameters are defined: the rotation direction of the two small cylinders (including co-current rotation and counter-current rotation) and the dimensionless rotation rate alpha. In the simulation, the rotation rate alpha varies from 0 to 2.4. The results indicate that the optimum rotation direction of the subsidiary cylinders, which is beneficial to both drag reduction and heat transfer enhancement, is the co-current rotating (the upper affiliated cylinder spins clockwise and the lower affiliated cylinder spins counter-clockwise). We observe noticeable suppression of the vortex shedding and favorable reduction of the fluid forces acting on the main cylinder as the rotation rate increases. Besides, the pressure and viscous components of the drag force are analyzed. Energy balance between energy cost for activating the rotating cylinders and energy saving by the momentum injection is considered. In addition, the influence of the affiliated rotating cylinders on heat transfer is also investigated. The average Nusselt number is found to increase with the rotation rate.
- 出版日期2013-5
- 单位天津大学
