Title: Investigation of a wake formation for flow over a cylinder using Lagrangian coherent structures

Authors: Ali Bahadir Olcay

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 34755, Turkey

Abstract: In this study, flow over a cylinder was investigated to understand the physics of fluid motion in the wake region. Eulerian velocity field attained from computational fluid dynamics model while Lagrangian information obtained from finite time Lyapunov exponent fields illustrated how a vortex formation takes place once it is detached from the cylinder.

Keywords: wake evolution; cylinders; Lagrangian coherent structures; LCSs; wake formation; fluid flow; computational fluid dynamics; CFD; vortex formation.

DOI: 10.1504/PCFD.2016.075159

Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal, 2016 Vol.16 No.2, pp.126 - 130

Published online: 05 Mar 2016 *

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