A numerical study of vortex shedding from flat plates with square leading and trailing edges
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 236, 445-460
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092001472
Abstract
This paper describes a numerical study of the flow around flat plates with square leading and trailing edges on the basis of a finite-difference analysis of the two-dimensional Navier—Stokes equations. The chord-to-thickness ratio of a plate, d/h, ranges from 3 to 9 and the value of the Reynolds number based on the plate's thickness is constant and equal to 103. The numerical computation confirms the finding obtained in our previous experiments that vortex shedding from flat plates with square leading and trailing edges is caused by the impinging-shear-layer instability. In particular, the Strouhal number based on the plate's chord increases stepwise with increasing d/h in agreement with the experiment. Numerical analyses also provide some crucial information on the complicated vortical flow occurring near the trailing edge in conjunction with the vortex shedding mechanism. Finally, the mechanism of the impinging-shear-layer instability is discussed in the light of the experimental and numerical findings.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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