Experimental assessment of the air flow induced vibration of a single cylinder with a cantilever beam

Mahmoodpoor, Reza; Kiyoumarsioskouei, Amir; Taraghi Osguei, Amin; Donyaparast, Leila

doi:10.22034/jast.2024.445963.1178

Experimental assessment of the air flow induced vibration of a single cylinder with a cantilever beam

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Reza Mahmoodpoor ¹

Amir Kiyoumarsioskouei ¹

Amin Taraghi Osguei ¹

Leila Donyaparast ²

¹ Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran and Institute of Applied Energy, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, USA

10.22034/jast.2024.445963.1178

Abstract

The focus on different energy harvesting methods has led to various studies on the mechanism of flow-induced vibration phenomena, including vortex-induced vibration, galloping, and wake-galloping. In this study, an experimental investigation on flow around a cylinder with an elastic cantilever beam has been conducted to develop new energy harvesting devices based on its dynamic behavior. Therefore, the basic principles for the design of a high resolution open-circuit subsonic wind tunnel were systematically studied and a specific small scale wind tunnel was constructed based on the requirements. The test chamber cross section for the designed wind tunnel is square with a side length of 50 centimeters which can be used for investigation of different micro wind turbines performance up to velocity of 8 m/s with resolution of less than 0.1 m/s. The vibration of two prototype micro-turbines in the presence of obstacles and without obstacles has been studied in different Reynolds numbers. The results show that a circular cylinder oscillates with larger amplitude in the VIV range in comparison to the square cylinder, however, when galloping starts by increasing Reynolds number, the oscillation amplitude of the square cylinder severely increases. The experimental findings show that the presence of an obstacle in upstream of the flow considerably increases the amplitude of oscillation, however, does not have a meaningful effect on the vibration frequency. Also, results indicate that the vibration amplitude of the bluff body in the wake-galloping phenomenon for the square obstacle is greater in comparison to the circular obstacle.

Keywords

Micro Wind Turbine

Vortex-Induced Vibration

Galloping

Wake-galloping

Low Speed Wind Tunnel

Subjects

Aerodynamic

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