Experimental Study on Interference Effect of Three Risers Arranged in Tandem with Variable Spacing Ratios

Taking the three-riser group arranged in tandem as the research subject,an experimental study was carried out on the risers arranged in tandem.The purpose is to explore the sensitivity of the dynamic response of each riser to spacing ratio and reveal the physical mechanism of riser groups under the interference effect.The spacing ratios of the adj acent risers are 4.0,5.0,6.0,and 8.0.At the spacing between the risers of 4.0D,the strong feedback effect increases the cross-flow(CF) displacement amplitude of the upstream riser.The shielding effect is the key factor affecting the interference effect on the midstream and downstream risers.At low reduced velocities,the shielding area initially appears,the displacement amplitude of the midstream and downstream risers varies greatly,the vibration of the two risers is still dominated by the first-order mode,and the transition between adjacent vibration modes is restrained.The multi-frequency superposition phenomenon is very significant at high reduced velocities.The most sensitive interference spacing under the test conditions is obtained.Due to the separation of the incoming flow and the double shielding effect of the upstream and midstream risers,the regular vortex-induced vibration in the wake area of the downstream riser is broken,and the vibration in the two directions is weakened.In general,the interference effect is more significant for the CF vibration of the three-riser groups than the in-line(IL) vibration.

An experimental study on the effects of relative rotation direction on the wake interferences among tandem wind turbines

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the effects of relative rotation direction on the wake interferences among two tandemwind turbines models.While the oncoming flow conditions were kept in constant during the experiments,turbine power outputs,wind loads acting on the turbines,and wake characteristics behind the turbines were compared quantitatively with turbine models in either co-rotating or counter-rotating configuration.The measurement results reveal that the turbines in counter-rotating would harvest more wind energy from the same oncoming wind,compared with the co-rotating case.While the recovery of the streamwise velocity deficits in the wake flows was found to be almost identical with the turbines operated in either co-rotating or counter-rotating,the significant azimuthal velocity generated in the wake flow behind the upstream turbine is believed to be the reason why the counter-rotating turbines would have a better power production performance.Since the azimuthal flow velocity in the wake flow was found to decrease monotonically with the increasing downstream distance,the benefits of the counter-rotating configuration were found to decrease gradually as the spacing between the tandem turbines increases.While the counter-rotating downstream turbine was found to produce up to 20%more power compared with that of co-rotating configuration with the turbine spacing being about 0.7D,the advantage was found to become almost negligible when the turbine spacing becomes greater than 6.5D.It suggests that the counter-rotating configuration design would be more beneficial to turbines in onshore wind farms due to the smaller turbine spacing(i.e.,~3 rotor diameters for onshore wind farms vs.~7 rotor diameters for offshore wind farms in the prevailing wind direction),especially for those turbines sited over complex terrains with the turbine spacing only about 1–2 rotor diameters.

An Experimental Study on Aerodynamic Sound Generated from Wake Interference of Circular Cylinder and Airfoil Vane in Tandem

The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of aerodynamic sound generated from wake interference of circular cylinder and airfoil vane located in tandem and to clarify the generation mechanism of the sound source with discrete frequency. The effects of the interval between the cylinder and the airfoil on the characteristics of aerodynamic sound are investigated by acoustic measurement, flow visualization and exploration test of sound source. The relation between the flow field and the sound field with discrete frequency noise（DFN） is shown, and then it is found that the downstream airfoil works as the sound source of DFN, which has the frequency of vortex shedding from the upstream cylinder, when the interval of two bodies is longer than a critical distance.

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.

Flow and passive scalar transfer characteristics around a row of interacting tandem cylinders

Transfer and transport of a passive scalar as well as flow structures of unbounded flow over a row of 2,3,4 and 5 equispaced identical cylinders at Re=90 and pitch ratios 1.05D≤S≤7D are investigated.Studies are performed through high fidelity simulations using a novel sharp-interface immersed boundary method.Five flow regimes are identified based on the nature of flow in the gap between the first two cylinders:dormant in the gap where fluid in the gap is motionless;symmetric in the gap where fluid in the gap behaves like a cavity flow;alternating in the gap where fluid in the gap is trapped but flaps up and down;wake in the gap where periodic vortices are shed in the gap;and bi-stable flow regime where vortices are shed in the gap for some time and then quasi-periodic twin vortices prevail for other times.A jump in values of hydrodynamic forces,pressure coefficient,Strouhal number,and Sherwood number is observed as pitch ratio increases due to change in flow structure.At high pitch ratio,a convectively unstable two-row vortical train is formed by the second cylinder.Member cylinders immersed in the two-row vortical structures have no effect on flow structure downstream or upstream and portray poor scalar transfer characteristics.The effect of configuration size on flow structures is found not to be as prominent as that of pitch ratio.