Experimental Study on Vortex-Induced Vibration of Rough Risers with Coupling Interference Effect Under Side-by-Side Arrangement

A vortex-induced vibration(VIV)experiment of rough risers with coupling interference effect under a side-by-side arrangement was carried out in a wave-current combined flume.The roughness of the riser was characterized by arranging different specifications of surface attachments on the surface of the riser.Rough risers with three different roughnesses were arranged side by side with smooth risers to explore the VIV response of the riser under the combined action of roughness and interference effect,and to reveal the coupling mechanism between roughness and interference effect.The experimental results show that,compared with that of a smooth riser,the VIV of a rough riser under the coupling interference effect has a wider"lock-in"region,and the displacement decreases more significantly at a high reduced velocity,which is more likely to excite higher-order modes and frequency responses.In addition,the displacement response and frequency response of the smooth riser are not significantly affected by wake interference from the rough riser,which is caused by the decrease of the wake region due to the delay of the boundary layer separation point of the rough riser.

NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF THE FLOW AROUND TWO SQUARE CYLINDERS ARRANGED SIDE-BY-SIDE

The numerical method is used to calculate the flow around two square cylinders arranged side-by-side and the mean and fluctuating aerodynamic forces, and Strouhal numbers and power spectrum of lift force and drag force are obtained. An improved MAC method proposed by Chen Suqin et al.,which uses three order upwind scheme to discretize the convection term and uses multigrid method to solve the Poisson equation for pressure is applied to simulate the flow around two square cylinders arranged side-by-side. Results show that the interference characteristic of two square cylinders arranged side-by-side is completely different with the different spacing ratio. When the spacing ratio is smaller than a certain critical value, the gap flow between two cylinders is biased to one side in a stable or unstable manner.

An Experimental Study on Dynamics Features of Three Side-by-Side Flexible Risers Undergoing Vortex-Induced Vibrations in A Uniform Flow

A vortex-induced vibration(VIV)experiment on three side-by-side risers subjected to a uniform flow was carried out in a combined wave-current flume.The dynamic features of interference effect on three side-by-side risers were investigated by varying fluid velocity and inter-riser spacing.The distributions of dimensionless displacement,dominant frequency,and displacement trajectory of the model risers were measured using mode decomposition and wavelet transform techniques.The coupled interference of inter-riser fluid to adjacent risers at different spacings was disclosed by introducing the"interference ratio"concept.The results show that at spacings smaller than 6.0 D,the three model risers display appreciable deviations in their displacement responses in cross-flow or in-line direction,attributable to the strong proximity disturbance and wake interference between the risers.When the spacing is increased to 8.0 D,wake interference still makes great difference to the dynamic response of the risers in both directions.As reduced velocity increases,the three risers show higher agreement with an isolated riser in overall dominant vibration frequency in CF direction than that in IL direction at all spacings and the side risers,although symmetrically placed,do not vibrate symmetrically,as a result of the steady deflection of clearance flow within the riser group.Interference effect results in a remarkable unsteady mode competition within the risers;quantitation of the interference levels for the three risers at different spacings with interference ratio revealed that under low flow velocities and large spacing ratios,clearance flow constitutes a non-neglectable interferer for three side-by-side risers.

FLOW PAST TWO ROTATING CIRCULAR CYLINDERS IN A SIDE-BY-SIDE ARRANGEMENT

Measurements were performed using Particle Image Velocimetry （PIV） to analyze the modification of flow by the combined effects of the rotation and the Reynolds number on the flow past two rotating circular cylinders in a side-by-side-arrangement at a range of 425 〈 Re ≤ 1130,0 ≤α ≤4 （ α is the rotational speed） at one gap spacing of T / d = 1.11 （T and d are the distance between the centers of two cylinders and the cylinder diameter, respectively）. A new Immersed-Lattice Boltzmann Method （ILBM） scheme was used to study the effect of the gap spacing on the flow. The results show that the vortex shedding is suppressed as rotational speed increases. The flow reaches a steady state when the vortex shedding for both cylinders is completely suppressed at critical rotational speed. As the rotational speed further increases, the separation phenomenon in the boundary layers disappears at the attachment rotational speed. The critical rotational speed and attachment rotational speed become small as Reynolds number increases. The absolute rotational speed of cylinders should be large at same critical rotational speed and attachment rotational speed in the case of large Reynolds number. The gap spacing has an important role in changing the pattern of vortex shedding. It is very different in the mechanism of vortex shedding suppression for the flows around two rotating cylinders and single rotating cylinder.

气液两相流并列双方柱绕流涡脱特性数值研究

采用有限容积法,综合考虑了由剪切引起的紊流和由气泡引起的紊流关系式,基于双流体模型,对不同含气率、不同间距比下气液两相流并列双方柱绕流旋涡脱落特性进行了数值模拟。通过计算发现:气液两相流并列方柱绕流,在间距比T/D<2.0时,双方柱尾迹模式是偏流模式,且宽窄尾迹流是通过中间模式(非偏流)相互转化的;在偏流模式中,拥有宽尾迹模式的柱体具有更小的阻力,拥有窄尾迹模式的柱体具有更大的阻力,而中间模式两柱体阻力相当;在间距比T/D≥2.0时,双方柱尾迹是"同步"模式,在T/D=2.0时,双方柱以同步同相旋涡脱落形式为主,T/D=2.5、3.0、5.0时,双方柱以同步反相旋涡脱落形式为主。来流含气率增大对抑制气液两相流绕并列双方柱流动的涡街生成贡献很大,当含气率增大到0.12时,没有稳定涡街生成。对气液两相流并列双方柱绕流频域过程分析发现:来流严格对称的情况下,并列两方柱运动参量频域过程是非对称的,两柱体长时间所受到的流体作用是不一样的。