Computations and Measurements of the Effects of Trailing-Edge Geometry on the Wake of Bluff Bodies
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Abstract
This study has aimed to shed further light on the wake dynamics of a bluff body with a streamlined fore body and a rectangular blunt base through experiments and numerical analysis. Specifically, the study was designed to establish the role of instability modes and small-scale turbulence in shaping the wake dynamics, and the effect of boat tails including lobed geometries on the wake structure. In the absence of small-scale turbulence, the near wake of the body is dominated by the effects of two instability modes that promote larger-scale transient motions. Small-scale turbulence is found to have a significant suppressing effect on these motions. Presence of a straight tail is observed not to alter the fundamental structure of the wake, but the relative roles of the instability modes affecting the wake and the resultant streamwise mixing rates are modified. The straight tail is noted to reduce the initial size of the wake significantly to yield substantial reduction in form drag. Shaping the tail into a lobed trailing edge is found to modify the initial cross-section of the wake to an extent to negate the drag-reduction benefits produced by the tail in the straight configuration. Furthermore, the lobed configuration introduces three-dimensional coherent vortical structures at the tail trailing edge that dominate the near-wake development as well as promoting cross-stream mixing farther downstream.
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