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10 - The force on a cylinder near a wall in viscous potential flows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2009

Daniel Joseph
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
Toshio Funada
Affiliation:
Numazu College of Technology
Jing Wang
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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We study the force on a 2D cylinder near a wall in two potential flows: the flow that is due to the circulation 2πκ about the cylinder and the uniform streaming flow with velocity V past the cylinder. The pressure is computed with Bernoulli's equation, and the viscous normal stress is calculated with VPF; the shear stress is ignored. The forces on the cylinder are computed by integration of the normal stress over the surface of the cylinder. In both of the two cases, the force perpendicular to the wall (lift) is due to only the pressure and the force parallel to the wall (drag) is due to only the viscous normal stress. Our results show that the drag on a cylinder near a wall is larger than on a cylinder in an unbounded domain. In the flow induced by circulation or in the streaming flow, the lift force is always pushing the cylinder toward the wall. However, when the two flows are combined, the lift force can be pushing the cylinder away from the wall or toward the wall.

The flow that is due to the circulation about the cylinder

Figure 10.1 shows a cylinder with radius a near the wall x = 0.

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