Simulation of unsteady flow around a cylinder

Abstract EN

In this paper, the phenomena of vortex shedding from the circular cylinder surface has been studied at several Reynolds Numbers (40≤Re≤ 300).The 2D, unsteady, incompressible, Laminar flow, continuity and Navier Stokes equations have been solved numerically by using CFD Package FLUENT.

In this package PISO algorithm is used in the pressure-velocity coupling.

The numerical grid is generated by using Gambit program.

The velocity and pressure fields are obtained upstream and downstream of the cylinder at each time and it is also calculated the mean value of drag coefficient and value of lift coefficient .The results showed that the flow is strongly unsteady and unsymmetrical at Re>60.

The results have been compared with the available experiments and a good agreement has been found between them.