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Near-Wake Turbulence Properties in the High Reynolds Number Incompressible Flow Around a Circular Cylinder Measured by Two- and Three-Component PIV

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The main objective of the present experimental study is to analyse the turbulence properties in unsteady flows around bluff body wakes and to provide a database for improvement and validation of turbulence models, concerning the present class of non-equilibrium flows. The flow around a circular cylinder with a low aspect ratio (\(L/D=4.8\)) and a high blockage coefficient (\(D/H=0.208\)) is investigated. This confined environment is used in order to allow direct comparisons with realisable 3D Navier–Stokes computations avoiding ‘infinite’ conditions. The flow is investigated in the critical regime at Reynolds number 140,000. A cartography of the velocity fields in the near wake of the cylinder is obtained by PIV and Stereoscopic PIV techniques. Statistical means and phase-averaged quantities are determined. Furthermore, POD analysis is performed on the data set in order to extract coherent structures of the flow and to compare the results with those obtained by the conditional sampling technique. The Reynolds stresses, the strain-rate and vorticity fields as well as the turbulence production terms are determined.

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    R. Perrin, M. Braza, E. Cid, S. Cazin, F. Moradei, A. Barthet, A. Sevrain & Y. Hoarau

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Perrin, R., Braza, M., Cid, E. et al. Near-Wake Turbulence Properties in the High Reynolds Number Incompressible Flow Around a Circular Cylinder Measured by Two- and Three-Component PIV. Flow Turbulence Combust 77, 185–204 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-006-9043-5

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