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• Published Subscription 21 May 2014

  Vortex Shedding Characteristics of Tapered Cylinders at Turbulent Wake

  By Vahid Tamimi, Mostafa Zeinoddini, Arash Bakhtiari

  Abstract: The physics of flow regime around a tapered cylinder is strongly three-dimensional (3D) and complex. These pose numerical difficulties in capturing the vortex shedding phenomena in the wake of cylinder. This paper discusses the main characteristics of vortex shedding behind a fixed linearly tapered circular cylinder at relatively high Reynolds numbers. A computational fluid dynamics model is employed to solve the 3D incompressible transient Navier-Stokes governing equations. The numerical model …

  Published in Journal of Offshore Structure and Technology · Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2014 · pp. 25–38 Read article →