Numerical Analysis of Flow Past an Oscillating Circular Cylinder using Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Consistent Flux Reconstruction Scheme

TL;DR

This study develops and validates an ALE-CFR finite volume scheme for simulating incompressible flow past an oscillating cylinder, analyzing vortex shedding and lift/drag effects under various oscillation frequencies.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel ALE-CFR scheme for deforming grids and applies it to complex flow problems involving oscillating cylinders, advancing numerical methods in fluid dynamics.

Findings

Vortex shedding patterns are significantly affected by oscillation frequencies.

Transverse oscillations influence lift and drag characteristics.

The scheme accurately captures flow features around oscillating cylinders.

Abstract

This paper proposes an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian incompressible finite volume scheme based on Consistent Flux Reconstruction method (ALE-CFR) on deforming two-dimensional unstructured triangular grids. The scheme is further applied to solve for a problem of two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow past a rotationally oscillating circular cylinder when subjected to forced transverse oscillations at Re = 100. The paper first focuses on the mathematical development and validation of the ALE-CFR scheme and then its application on the problem. The rotational oscillation frequencies were taken corresponding to the four primary vortex shedding mode frequencies discovered from the studies conducted by Tokumaru and Dimotakis. The transverse oscillation frequency was varied for a frequency ratio $f_{tv}$ with respect to natural strouhal frequency for flow past a stationary circular cylinder from $0.9 \leq f_{tv} \leq 3.0$. The amplitude ratio for transverse oscillations was taken as 0.2 with respect to the cylinder diameter. The distinct effects on the vortex shedding patterns and the contributions of such rotational and transverse oscillations on lift and drag characteristics of the circular cylinder are studied using the newly developed scheme.