Analysis of Flow Induced Vibration Using the Vorticity Transport Equation

Abstract

Crossflow induced vibrations are the subject of this work. The analysis is two dimensional. The governing equations for fluid motion are solved using linearized perturbation theory and coupled with the equations of motion for cylinders to yield the threshold of dynamic instability for an array of cylinders. Parametric analysis is performed to determine the lowest instability threshold for a rotated square array and correlations are developed relating the dominant parameters. The results are compared with theoretical and experimental data for similar arrays and the discrepancies are discussed.