28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-3.11.2

A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THE AERODYNAMICS OF A SPINNING CYLINDER IN CROSSFLOW OF HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER

E. R. Gowree, S. A. Prince
City Univ., London, UK

Keywords: spinning cylinder, cross flow, high reynolds number

A study was conducted using CFD analysis of the high Reynolds number flow about a quasi- 2-D spinning cylinder in a crossflow, using a high resolution 3D time marching unsteady laminar Navier-Stokes solver. The effect of vortex shedding suppression was successfully resolved, but the reverse Magnus effect was not captured.

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