Wind and Structures

Volume 7, Number 5, 2004, pages 317-332

DOI: 10.12989/was.2004.7.5.317

Unsteady 2-D flow field characteristics for perforated plates with a splitter

Subhash C. Yaragal

Abstract

Wind tunnel experiments were conducted under highly turbulent and disturbed flow conditions over a solid/perforated plate with a long splitter plate in its plane of symmetry. The effect of varied level of perforation of the normal plate on fluctuating velocities and fluctuating pressures measured across and along the separation bubble was studied. The different perforation levels of the normal plate; that is 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% are studied. The Reynolds number based on step height was varied from 4

Key Words

RMS fluctuating pressures; two dimensional perforated plates; normal plate; bluff body; splitter plate; shear layer; flow separation; reattachment; wind tunnel testing.

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