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On vortex street wakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

P. W. Bearman
P. W. Bearman
Affiliation:
Cambridge University Engineering Laboratory
Now at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex.
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Abstract

The flow in the wake of a two-dimensional blunt-trailing-edge body was investigated in the Reynolds number range, Reynolds number being referred to base height, 1·3 × 104 to 4·1 × 104. The effects of splitter plates and base bleed on the vortex street were examined. Measurements were made of the longitudinal spacing between vortices and the velocity of the vortices, and compared with values predicted by von Kármán's potential vortex street model. The lateral spacing was estimated by using both the von Kármán and Kronauer stability criteria. A new universal wake Strouhal number is devised, using the value of lateral spacing predicted by the Kronauer stability condition as the length dimension. A correlation of bluff-body data was found when pressure drag coefficient times Strouhal number was plotted against base pressure.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , 22 June 1967 , pp. 625 - 641
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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