Measurements of turbulent and periodic flows around a square cross-section cylinder

Laser-Doppler measurements of the velocity characteristics are presented for the turbulent flow around a square cross-section cylinder mounted in a water channel for Re=14000. The study involved spectral analysis and digital filtering of the LDV data obtained behind the cylinder. The purpose of the measurements is to separate and quantify the turbulent and the periodic, non-turbulent, motions of the wake flow, in order to improve knowledge of the nature of the fluctuations in the near-wake region of two-dimensional bodies. The results show, for example, that in the zone of highest velocity oscillations the energy associated with the turbulent fluctuations is about 40% of the total energy.

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