Experimental Study of the Downstream Flow of a Cylinder with Three Different Cross Sections by Hot Wire Anemometry

Drag and lift forces imposed on various bodies employed in engineering applications such as square and circular cylinders are highly dependent on the nature and characteristics of flow field around these structures. Therefore, the detailed investigation of the flow behavior around such bluff bodies has important engineering applications. In the present work, the characteristics of flow in the downstream of three different models with the circle and square cross sections is investigated in the wind tunnel using the hot wire anemometry. The blockage ratio for the circular and square cylinders at zero angle of attack is 2.2 percent, while it is 3.14 percent for the square cylinder with 45-degree angle of attack. For the model with a square cross section, the experiments were performed for both zero and 45-degree angle of attack. In this study, the effects of different Reynolds number and the cross-section of the cylinders are studied with the use of measured velocities and their fluctuation components. The Strouhal number and other flow characteristics in the downstream of the cylinder are compared with the published results in the literature. A good agreement is observed between the present results and the reported results. Comparing the result of three models showed that the reduced flow velocity behind 45 degrees orientated square cylinder in the interval X/D