CHANNEL FLOW WITH A STREAMWISE-PERIODIC ARRAY OF CIRCULAR CYLINDERS - PRIMARY INSTABILITY AND FLOW CHARACTERISTICS -

원형 실린더가 주기적으로 배열된 채널 유동 - 주 불안정성 및 유동특성 -

A parametric study has been carried out to elucidate the characteristics of channel flow with a streamwise-periodic array of cylinders. This flow configuration is relevant to heat exchanger applications. The presence of cylinders in channel flow causes the attached wall boundary layer to separate, leading to significant change in flow instabilities. There exist two kinds of instabilities; flow undergoes a primary instability (Hopf bifurcaiton) at a lower Reynolds number, and the unsteady two-dimensional flow becomes unstable to three-dimensional disturbances at a higher Reynolds number. We report here the dependencies of the primary instability as well as the flow characteristics of the subsequent unsteady flow including flow-induced forces and Strouhal number of vortex shedding, on the distance between the cylinder and the channel wall.