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Vortex-Induced Vibrations Of An Inclined Cylinder In Flow, Anil B. Jain
Vortex-Induced Vibrations Of An Inclined Cylinder In Flow, Anil B. Jain
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
When a bluff body is placed in flow, vortices are shed downstream of the body. For the case of a bluff body with a circular cross-section (a cylinder) attached to a spring and a damper, when the frequency of vortex shedding is close to the natural frequency of the structure, the cylinder oscillates in a direction perpendicular to the flow. This is called Vortex Induced Vibration (VIV) and is a canonical problem in fluid-structure interactions. The majority of studies on VIV of a flexibly mounted rigid cylinder are for the cases where the flow direction is perpendicular to the long …