Experimental study of the bistable flow in tube arrays



Document title: Experimental study of the bistable flow in tube arrays
Journal: Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000312376
ISSN: 1678-5878
Authors: 1

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Institutions: 1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
Year:
Season: Abr-Jun
Volumen: 28
Number: 2
Pages: 233-241
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Experimental, aplicado
English abstract Flow through circular cylinder arrays are commonly found in several engineering application as offshore structures, heat exchangers, transmission lines and chimneys, therefore the understanding of the several phenomena that occur due the interaction between flowing fluid and these structures is very important. This work analyzes experimentally the presence of phenomenon called bistable or biased flow, which is able to cause alternations on the flow modes in cylinder arrays. For the experimental work, two cylinders are placed side-by-side, or forming a tube bank with in line arrangement. The first arrangement corresponds to the case where the phenomenon is easily detected, and in line tube bank, the phenomenon has been also found. The experiments were performed in a wind channel using hot wire anemometry additionally to the classical statistic and spectral tools, wavelet transforms are used. The bistable flow can be an important generator of dynamic instabilities, since it alternates the lift and drag coefficients, thus alternating the structure dynamic response
Disciplines: Ingeniería
Keyword: Ingeniería mecánica,
Flujos,
Sesgo,
Bancos de tubos,
Flujo turbulento,
Espectrografía,
Hilo caliente
Keyword: Engineering,
Mechanical engineering,
Flows,
Biases,
Tube banks,
Turbulent flow,
Spectrography,
Hot wire
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