Many researches were done on the flow field analysis around two adjacent cylinders. A lot of applications can be found in many fields, such as, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, wind engineering, and ocean engineering. This research aims ...
Many researches were done on the flow field analysis around two adjacent cylinders. A lot of applications can be found in many fields, such as, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, wind engineering, and ocean engineering. This research aims at the ocean engineering applications. Most of the ocean structures consist of cylindrical bodies. Thus the interaction between them are very important phenomenon to be analyzed.
Zdravkovich(1985) published a paper concerning the interaction effects between two adjacent cylinders, in side by side and tandem arrangements. His research was done in the wind tunnel. He presented the sketch of the classificaiton of flow regimes. In this study the velocity vector fields were obtained by using the particle image velocimetry. The details of the velocity field information were obtained. The experiment was done in the circulating water channel. The flow fields were visualized by using laser beam sheet first.
Then the video camera recorded the flow fields. The results are transferred to the computer through image board. Noise reduction was done on the input frames of images. Then the particle identification were done by two frame cross correlation method. Finally, the flow field were obtained. Most of the results are in good agreements with those of Zdravkovich.
This research proved that PIV could be a very useful and efficient tool in the flow field analysis.