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Mapping the properties of the vortex-induced vibrations of flexible cylinders in uniform oncoming flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2019

Dixia Fan Open the ORCID record for Dixia Fan [Opens in a new window] ,
Zhicheng Wang Open the ORCID record for Zhicheng Wang [Opens in a new window] ,
Michael S. Triantafyllou Open the ORCID record for Michael S. Triantafyllou [Opens in a new window]  and
George Em Karniadakis
Dixia Fan
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Zhicheng Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Michael S. Triantafyllou
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
George Em Karniadakis
Affiliation:
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: zhicheng@mit.edu
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Abstract

Flexible structures placed within an oncoming flow exhibit far more complex vortex-induced dynamics than flexibly mounted rigid cylinders, because they involve the distributed interaction between the structural and wake dynamics along the entire span. Hence, mapping the well-understood properties of rigid cylinder vibrations to those of strings and beams has been elusive. We show here with a combination of experiments, conducted at Reynolds number, $Re$ from 250 to 2300, and computational fluid dynamics that such a mapping is possible for flexible structures in uniform flow undergoing combined cross-flow and in-line oscillations, but only when additional concepts are introduced to model the extended coupling of the flow and the structure. The in-line response consists of largely standing waves that define cells, each cell spanning the distance between adjacent nodes, over which stable vortical patterns form, whose features (‘2S’ versus ‘P$+$S’) depend strongly on the true reduced velocity, $V_{r}=U/f_{y}d$, where $U$ is the inflow velocity, $f_{y}$ is the cross-flow vibration frequency and $d$ is the cylinder diameter, and the phase angle between in-line and cross-flow response; while the cross-flow response may contain travelling waves, breaking the symmetry of the problem. The axial distribution of the highly variable effective added masses in the cross-flow and in-line directions, and the local phase angle between in-line and cross-flow motion determine the single frequency of cross-flow response, while the in-line response vibrates at twice the cross-flow frequency. The cross-flow and in-line lift coefficients in phase with velocity depend strongly on the true reduced velocity but also on the local phase angle between in-line and cross-flow motions. Modal shapes can be defined for in-line and cross-flow, based on the resemblance of the response to conventional modes, which can be in the ratio of either ‘$2n/n$’ or ‘$(2n-1)/n$’, where $n$ is the order of the cross-flow response mode. We use an underwater optical tracking system to reconstruct the sectional fluid forces in a flexible structure and show that, once the cross-flow and in-line motion features are known, employing strip theory and the hydrodynamic coefficients obtained from forced rigid cylinder experiments allows us to predict the distributed forces accurately.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 881 , 25 December 2019 , pp. 815 - 858
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