Publication

The motion of a 2D pendulum in a channel subjected to an incoming flow

François Gallaire, Andrea Fani
2015
Journal paper

Abstract

The flow around a tethered cylinder subjected to an incoming flow transverse to its main axis and confined in a channel is investigated by means of global stability analysis of the full coupled body-fluid problem. When the cylinder is strongly confined (ratio of cylinder diameter to cell height, D/H= 0.66) we retrieve the confinement-induced instability (CIV) discovered by Semin et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 690, 2011, pp. 345-365), which sets in at a Reynolds number below the vortex-induced vibration threshold. For a moderately confined case (D/H= 0.3), a new steady static instability is discovered, referred to as confinement-induced divergence (CID). This instability saturates into an asymmetric steady solution through a supercritical pitchfork bifurcation. In addition, the CIV and CID instabilities are studied via a reduced model obtained by considering a quasi-static response of the fluid, allowing for tracing back the physical mechanisms responsible for the instabilities.

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