A review of bluff body wakes

JF Derakhshandeh, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
bluff body has covered a wide range of scientific fields. This paper reviews the wakes of
different cross-sectional bluff bodies… ) that can significantly alter the wake are taken into account. …

A review of experiments on stationary bluff body wakes

B Forouzi Feshalami, S He, F Scarano, L Gan… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
bluff body wakes have been dedicated to flow control, which is beyond the scope of the present
review… The present review covers the latest advancements of experimental investigations …

Near-wake instabilities and vortex structures of three-dimensional bluff bodies: a review

M Kiya, H Ishikawa, H Sakamoto - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2001 - Elsevier
review we are concerned with vortical structure in the wake of the axisymmetric and plane-symmetric
bluff bodies … and active control of vortex shedding from a sphere are also reviewed. …

The physical mechanism of transition in bluff body wakes

MC Thompson, T Leweke, CHK Williamson - Journal of Fluids and …, 2001 - Elsevier
… and the KaHrmaHn vortices in the wake, and even within the cores the ellipticity parameter
is far from constant. In addition, linear stability analysis predicts that the unstable mode grows …

Control of flow over a bluff body

H Choi, WP Jeon, J Kim - Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 2008 - annualreviews.org
review, we present control methods for flow over a bluff body such as a circular cylinder, a
2D bluff body … We do emphasize here that controls change the wake field directly, not through …

Advances in our understanding of vortex dynamics in bluff body wakes

CHK Williamson - Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial …, 1997 - Elsevier
… more detail in the recent review of Williamson [2]. We include, in this selected review,
some of the … In this overview of the bluff body wake, we have purposely dwelt on the fundamental …

Bluff bodies and wake–wall interactions

MC Thompson, T Leweke… - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
… we start with a brief review of the wake transitions of generic bluff bodies—two-dimensional
(… impulsively arrested bodies. Then, we map the changes in wakes as the bodies are located …

Near wake flows behind two-and three-dimensional bluff bodies

PW Bearman - Journal of wind engineering and industrial …, 1997 - Elsevier
… It is not intended to review here the application of CFD to bluff body flows but rather to present
an example of where two-dimensional computations can give additional physical insight …

Vortex shedding of bluff bodies: a review

M Matsumoto - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 1999 - Elsevier
In this paper the various types of vortex generation and the related response characteristics
of bluff bodies are described. The vortices are, in general, generated by a certain stimulation, …

Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

R Mondal, MM Alam - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
… This paper provides a thorough review of confined flow around various bluff bodies. … This
paper provides a thorough review of the studies on the confined flow around bluff bodies of …