Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In many industrial applications, fluid flow around bluff bodies is confined between two
parallel walls. This paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow …

A review of cylinder corner effect on flow and heat transfer

MM Alam - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the literature and to impart a
perspective on the current status and future directions for fundamentals of flow around and …

Airborne dust-induced performance degradation in NREL phase VI wind turbine: a numerical study

J Zare, SE Hosseini, MR Rastan - International Journal of Green …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The meteorological conditions markedly affect the energy efficiencies and cost/power rate of
the wind turbines. The dusty environment is common in arid windy areas and airborne …

Numerical simulation of separated flow past a square cylinder based on a two-fluid turbulence model

ZM Malikov, ME Madaliev - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper presents the numerical results of the transverse flow around an infinite square
beam based on the two-fluid turbulence model for the Reynolds number Re= 21400. This …

Vortex-induced vibration and hydrodynamic characteristics of a round-ended cylinder

H Zhu, B Xu, MM Alam, Y Gao, T Zhou - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A round-ended section possesses the advantages of both circular and square sections, ie a
large span and smooth transition at both ends. Therefore, the two-degree-of-freedom VIV …

Mode-based energy transfer analysis of flow-induced vibration of two rigidly coupled tandem cylinders

H Zhang, L Zhou, KT Tim - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Two rigidly coupled cylinders are commonly available in engineering practices, which are
always subjected to flow-induced vibration (FIV) with large oscillating amplitude due to the …

Numerical study of the effects of aspect ratio and Reynolds number on the flow over a rectangular cylinder with rounded corners

R Wang, X Zuo, Y He, W Pi, YP Zhu, C Wu, Y Wei - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The numerical investigation of flow over a cylinder is conducted using the momentum
exchange-based immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM). The cross-section …

A note on flow-induced force measurement of oscillating cylinder by loadcell

MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper presents a systematic understanding of the importance of the quiescent-fluid
added mass consideration in the estimation of loadcell-measured fluid force acting an …

Wake of wavy elliptic cylinder at a low Reynolds number: Wavelength effect

X Shi, H Bai, MM Alam, C Ji, H Zhu - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Effects of the spanwise wavelength (λ) of a sinusoidal wavy cylinder with elliptic cross-
section on wake structures and fluid forces are numerically investigated at a Reynolds …

Onset of vortex shedding and hysteresis in flow over tandem sharp-edged cylinders of diverse cross sections

M Kouchakzad, A Sohankar, MR Rastan - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Numerical simulations are conducted to analyze flow characteristics around two tandem
sharp-edged cylinders with cross sections of square (⁠ b 1*= 1⁠) for the upstream cylinder …