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Numerical Study of Flow Around an Oscillating Sphere  

Lee, Jin-Woog (School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Lee, Dae-Sung (School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Ha, Man-Yeong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Yoon, Hyun-Sik (Advanced Ship Engineering Research Center, Pusan National University)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.22, no.11, 2010 , pp. 767-772 More about this Journal
Abstract
The incompressible viscous flow past a sphere under forced oscillation is numerically investigated at a Reynolds number of 300. The immersed boundary method is used to handle the sphere oscillating vertically to the streamwise direction. There are two important variables to characterize the oscillating state of a sphere. One is an oscillating amplitude normalized by the sphere diameter is set as a fixed number of 0.2. Another is the frequency ratio which is defined by $f_e/f_o$, where fe and fo are the excited frequency and the natural frequency of vortex shedding for the stationary sphere. In this study, three different frequency ratios of 0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 are considered. The results show a periodic flow with hairpin vortices shedding from upper and lower positions as well as vortical legs obliquely extended by oscillating motion of sphere. The enveloping vortical structure experience rupture twice in one period of oscillation. As the frequency of oscillation is increased, the vortical legs are getting shorter and eventually the hairpin vortices are much closer to the adjacent one.
Keywords
Oscillating sphere; Vortical structure;
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