Impulsive Flow about a Circular Cylinder.

Abstract

The drag and lift forces acting on smooth circular cylinders in an impulsively-started flow have been measured through the use of a vertical water tunnel. The drag and lift coefficients were found to depend on the Reynolds number and the normalized displacement of the fluid from the start. It is recommended that these experiments be extended to higher Reynolds numbers to substantiate further the Reynolds number dependence. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA051781

Entities

People

  • Turgut Sarpkaya

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Bodies
  • Boundary Layer
  • Calibration
  • Coefficients
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Reynolds Number
  • Slender Bodies
  • Steady Flow
  • Steady State
  • Test Facilities
  • Tunnels
  • Water Tunnels

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.