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Deryl O. Snyder
C. Greg Jensen
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
and to the following students who assisted in the creation of the Fluid Dynamics tutorials:
Leslie Tanner, Cole Yarrington, Curtis Rands, Curtis Memory, and Stephen McQuay.
Oscillating Cylinder
2-D Flow
In this tutorial, Gambit® will be used to create and mesh the geometry for the problem.
Once this is complete, Fluent® will be used to solve the time dependant problem.
This tutorial will provide an outline to guide a user through creating a 2D mesh to be
used in a dynamic case in Fluent and using Fluent to analyze unsteady lift and drag
coefficient data.
The methods expressed in these tutorials represent just one approach to modeling, defining and
solving 2D problems. Our goal is the education of students in the use of CAx tools for model-
ing, defining and solving fluids application problems. Other techniques and methods will be
used and introduced in subsequent tutorials.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Creating Geometry
In this problem, the cylinder will oscillate
vertically inside the square domain. Two
fluid regions will be required: one contain-
ing the boundary layer and cylinder and
the other containing the rest of the domain.
This is done to so that Fluent is not
required to dynamically mesh the bound-
ary layer.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Meshing Geometry
Edge meshes are only required on the cir-
cles for this problem. Mesh both circle
edges with Sucessive Ratio = 1 and
Interval Count = 40.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Defining the Problem
After reading in and checking the mesh in
the 2-D version of Fluent, scale the mesh so
that the cylinder is 1 cm in diameter.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Defining the Problem
Make the following changes to the
Solution Controls.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Solving the Problem
If desired, the cylinder motion can be pre-
viewed before iterating. It is advised to
write a Case and Data file before preview-
ing so that a clean mesh can be used for the
final solution.
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Oscillating Cylinder
Analyzing the Solution
The vortex shedding frequency can be
found by analyzing the lift coefficient file
using Fluent’s built in FFT function.