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- Title
An unsteady point vortex method for coupled fluid–solid problems.
- Authors
Michelin, Sébastien; Llewellyn Smith, Stefan
- Abstract
A method is proposed for the study of the two-dimensional coupled motion of a general sharp-edged solid body and a surrounding inviscid flow. The formation of vorticity at the body’s edges is accounted for by the shedding at each corner of point vortices whose intensity is adjusted at each time step to satisfy the regularity condition on the flow at the generating corner. The irreversible nature of vortex shedding is included in the model by requiring the vortices’ intensity to vary monotonically in time. A conservation of linear momentum argument is provided for the equation of motion of these point vortices (Brown–Michael equation). The forces and torques applied on the solid body are computed as explicit functions of the solid body velocity and the vortices’ position and intensity, thereby providing an explicit formulation of the vortex–solid coupled problem as a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations. The example of a falling card in a fluid initially at rest is then studied using this method. The stability of broadside-on fall is analysed and the shedding of vorticity from both plate edges is shown to destabilize this position, consistent with experimental studies and numerical simulations of this problem. The reduced-order representation of the fluid motion in terms of point vortices is used to understand the physical origin of this destabilization.
- Subjects
FLUID dynamics; VORTEX shedding; VISCOUS flow; UNSTEADY flow; COMPUTATIONAL fluid dynamics
- Publication
Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2009, Vol 23, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0935-4964
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00162-009-0096-7