Unsteady flow around two-dimensional circular cylinder bundles in fluid elastic vibration

We describe the unsteady flow around two-dimensional circular cylinder bundles supported by the leaf spring in the fluid-elastic vibration. The experiment was carried out in a circuit-type wind tunnel having a 200 mm x 200 mm working section of 2,000 mm length at the Reynolds number Re of 6,300. Two-dimensional circular cylinders with diameter D = 20 mm were aligned at regular spaces S in the square array of three rows. The spacing ratio between two adjoining circular cylinders was constant as S/D = 1.5. The time-mean velocity, turbulent intensities and Reynolds stress were measured by use of a laser Doppler velocimeter. The unsteady flow pattern around an oscillating cylinder was observed by the flow visualization in a water channel. Consequently, it was found that the occurrence of the fluid-elastic vibration is caused by the phenomenon of wake-switch for the circular cylinder bundles of three rows. (author)