Flow Simulation Around a Rotating Circular Cylinder With Surface Roughness by the Vortex Method

Abstract

The two-dimensional flow around a rotating circular cylinder with surface roughness in a steady uniform flow is investigated using a vortex method. The Reynolds number is 9500, while the rotating speed ratios of the peripheral velocity to the uniform velocity is 0–1.0. The surface roughness is distributed around the circular cylinder and its strength is 0.5% of the diameter. The viscous diffusion effects and the no-slip condition are considered. Before the calculation for a rotating circular cylinder with the surface roughness, the flow simulation for a circular cylinder in the steady uniform flow was conducted to confirm the present method. The development of the twin vortices and the velocity profiles behind the circular cylinder at the beginning of the calculation are compared with the previous experimental results. It is found that the calculated results are in good agreement with the experiments. The development of the vortices, the drag and the lift coefficients are computed by changing the rotating speed ratio for the circular cylinder both with the surface roughness and without it. The influence of the surface roughness and the rotating speed ratio on the vortex development, the drag and the lift coefficients are examined.