TY - JOUR
TI - The 3-D study on flow around two wall-mounted cylinders in side by side arrangement
AU - Jiang Tongxiao
AU - Ying Yuxiang
AU - Nie Deming
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2023
VL - 27
IS - 101
SP - 39
EP - 48
PT - Article
AB - To investigate the characteristics of flow over two finite-height cylinders  in side-by-side arrangement, 3-D numerical simulations are performed using  the CFD technology for gap ratios (G = S/d, where d is the diameter of the  cylinders, and S is the separation gap between the cylinders) between 1 and  4 at a Reynolds number of 100. The height-to-diameter ratio (h/d = 8, where  h is the height of the cylinder) is fixed at 8. The drag and lift  coefficients of the cylinders, as well as the Strouhal number are presented  and compared with those of their 2-D counterparts. Our re­sults show that  the wake of the cylinders indicates a transition from the anti-phase state  to the in-phase state at large gap ratios, accompanied by a decrease in the  lift coefficients of the cylinders.