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The separated flow past a cylinder in a rotating frame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Anne Becker
Anne Becker
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Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
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Abstract

In this paper a numerical model for the viscous flow past a cylinder in a rotating frame is discussed when both the Rossby number Ro and Ekman number E are small. The results of this model are analysed and compared to an inviscid study by Page (1987) applicable in the limit E → 0 with Ro = O(E½). The detailed structure of the separated flow is also examined and compared to the proposals for the higher-order flow in E¼ layers in Page (1987) which were based, in part, on the theory of Smith (1979, 1985) for the non-rotating flow past bluff bodies. Some discrepancies between this theory and the numerical results are noted.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 224 , March 1991, pp. 117 - 132
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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