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Optimal viscous damping of vibrating porous cylinders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2019

Saeed Jafari Kang
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Esmaeil Dehdashti
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Vahid Vandadi
Affiliation:
Polaris Industries Inc., Medina, MN 55340, USA
Hassan Masoud*
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
*
†Email address for correspondence: hmasoud@mtu.edu

Abstract

We theoretically study small-amplitude oscillations of permeable cylinders immersed in an unbounded fluid. Specifically, we examine the effects of oscillation frequency, permeability and shape on the effective mass and damping coefficients, the latter of which is proportional to the power required to sustain the vibrations. Cylinders of circular and elliptical cross-sections undergoing transverse and rotational vibrations are considered. The dynamics of the fluid flow through porous cylinders is assumed to obey the unsteady Brinkman–Debye–Bueche equations. We use a singularity method to analytically calculate the flow field within and around circular cylinders, whereas we introduce a Fourier-pseudospectral method to numerically solve the governing equations for elliptical cylinders. We find that, if rescaled properly, the analytical results for circular cylinders provide very good estimates for the behaviour of elliptical ones over a wide range of conditions. More importantly, our calculations indicate that, at sufficiently high frequencies, the damping coefficient of oscillations varies non-monotonically with the permeability, in which case it maximizes when the diffusion length scale for the vorticity is comparable to the penetration length scale for the flow within the porous material. Depending on the oscillation period, the maximum damping of a permeable cylinder can be many times greater than that of an otherwise impermeable one. This might seem counter-intuitive at first, since generally the power it takes to steadily drag a permeable object through a fluid is less than the power needed to drive the steady motion of the same, but impermeable, object. However, the driving power (or damping coefficient) for oscillating bodies is determined not only by the amplitude of the cyclic fluid load experienced by them but also by the phase shift between the load and their periodic motion. An increase in the latter is responsible for the excess damping coefficient of vibrating porous cylinders.

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Figure 1. Schematic of a vibrating cylinder (depicted as a dark grey circle of dimensionless radius one) immersed in a boundless fluid (shown in light grey). The dashed enclosing contour highlights the lack of an outer boundary, and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D712}=0$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D712}=1$ denote areas inside and outside of the cylinder, respectively. Also, double-headed arrows represent transverse and rotational vibrations.

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Figure 2. Schematic illustrating a periodic domain of length $L$ (depicted as a thick black square) that is uniformly discretized into an array of square elements. The dark grey regions represent identical cylinders of non-circular cross-section that are spaced a domain length apart from one another.

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Figure 3. Dimensionless (a) effective mass and (b) damping coefficients of a transversely oscillating porous circular cylinder as a function of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}/\sqrt{{\mathcal{R}}}$ for different values of the dimensionless frequency ${\mathcal{R}}$. Dashed lines in the insets are plots of the asymptotic expressions in the limits of high/low oscillation frequency and permeability (see table 1 in appendix A). Dimensionless (c) force magnitude and (d) phase shift between the force and prescribed displacement associated with the plots in (a) and (b) (see (3.1)).

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Figure 4. Dimensionless (a,c) effective mass and (b,d) damping coefficients of transversely oscillating porous elliptical cylinders of various aspect ratio $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}$. The dimensionless frequency is ${\mathcal{R}}=10^{-1}$ in (a,b), and ${\mathcal{R}}=10^{3}$ in the primary plots and ${\mathcal{R}}=10$ in the insets of (c,d). The results are plotted versus the modified $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$, i.e. $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ multiplied by $\sqrt{\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}}$.

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Figure 5. Dimensionless (a) effective mass and (b) damping coefficients of a rotationally oscillating porous circular cylinder as a function of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}/\sqrt{{\mathcal{R}}}$ for different values of the dimensionless frequency ${\mathcal{R}}$. Dashed lines in the insets are plots of the asymptotic expressions in the limits of high/low oscillation frequency and permeability (see table 1 in appendix A). (c) Dimensionless torque magnitude and (d) phase shift between the torque and prescribed angular displacement associated with the plots in (a) and (b) (see (3.3)).

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Figure 6. Dimensionless (a,c) effective mass and (b,d) damping coefficients of rotationally oscillating porous elliptical cylinders of various aspect ratio $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}$. The dimensionless frequency is ${\mathcal{R}}=10^{-1}$ in (a,b), and ${\mathcal{R}}=10^{3}$ in the primary plots and ${\mathcal{R}}=10$ in the insets of (c,d).

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Figure 7. Percentage difference between the results of full and linearized NS calculations for the damping coefficients of porous cylinders oscillating (a) transversely and (b) rotationally with finite amplitudes. The primary plots belong to circular cylinders, whereas those in the insets are for elliptical cylinders of aspect ratio $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}=0.1$. The dimensionless frequency is ${\mathcal{R}}=10^{3}$ in all plots.

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Table 1. Asymptotic expressions for the effective mass and damping coefficients of transversely and rotationally oscillating porous circular cylinders. The new parameters $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ are defined as $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}=\ln (\sqrt{{\mathcal{R}}}/2)+\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F6}$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}^{2}+\unicode[STIX]{x03C0}^{2}/16$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F6}$ is the Euler constant.

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Figure 8. Dimensionless (a,c) effective mass and (b,d) damping coefficients of (a,b) transversely and (c,d) rotationally oscillating porous spheres as a function of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}/\sqrt{{\mathcal{R}}}$ for different values of the dimensionless frequency ${\mathcal{R}}$. Dashed lines in the insets are plots of the asymptotic expressions in the limits of high/low oscillation frequency and permeability (see table 2).

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Table 2. Asymptotic expressions for the effective mass and damping coefficients of transversely and rotationally oscillating porous spheres.