Flow Around Two Circular Cylinders Arranged Perpendicular to Each Other

摘要

The flow around two smooth circular cylinders arranged perpendicular to eachother has been examined through flow visualization in a water tunnel facility. The configuration was immersed in a steady, low-turbulence, uniform flow at Reynolds numbers of 1x10,000 and 2x1,000 (based on cylinder diameter and freestream velocity) and the effect of cylinder spacing was examined up to a distance of five diameters between axes. The observations corroborate the findings of a wind tunnel study previously performed by the author and provide further details of the complex regimes that occur at the center of the geometry.