Spatio-temporal stability of the Karman vortex street and the effect of confinement
Author
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Mowlavi, Saviz
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Arratia Martínez, Cristóbal
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2016-10-06T19:36:01Z
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2016-10-06T19:36:01Z
Publication date
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2016
Cita de ítem
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J. Fluid Mech. (2016), vol. 795, pp. 187 209
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10.1017/jfm.2016.195
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/140673
Abstract
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The instability of the Karman vortex street is revisited under a spatio-temporal perspective that allows the taking into account of the advection of the vortices by the external flow. We analyse a simplified point vortex model and show through numerical simulations of its linear impulse response that the system becomes convectively unstable above a certain critical advection velocity. This critical velocity decreases as the aspect ratio approaches its specific value for temporal stability, and increases with the confinement induced by lateral walls. In the limiting unconfined case, direct application of the Briggs-Bers criterion to the dispersion relation gives results in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations. Finally, a direct numerical simulation of the Re = 100 flow past a confined cylinder is performed, and the actual advection velocity of the resulting vortex street is found to be much larger than the critical advection velocity for convective instability given by our model. The Karman vortex street is therefore strongly convectively unstable.
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CONICYT/PAI, Apoyo al retorno desde el extranjero
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