| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S04086/01 |
| Title: |
Sheared laminar wakes |
| Principal Investigator: |
Eames, Professor I |
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Mechanical Engineering |
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UCL |
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Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
01 July 2002 |
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30 June 2003 |
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3,142
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A common feature of most engineering flows (such as the flow past turbine blades, boiler tubes, multiphase flows) is the complex interaction between turbulent wakes (generated by fixed or moving bodies) and an external ambient flow and the lift and drag forces acting on the bodies. In the presence of a shear flow, the wake vorticity diffuses asymmetrically in the far field leading to a reduction in the volume flux in the wake and inducing a net circulation in the flow. Numericla calculations by Kurase & Komori (1999) indicate that the lift coefficient is negative, incontrast to the case of Re1 and inviscid flows when the lift coefficient is positive. The aim of this proposal is to calculate within an analytical framework the induced flow and force, to reconcile the change in sign of the lift coefficient at high Re.
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