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Research Papers

Numerical simulations of turbulent flow around side-by-side circular piles with different spacing ratios

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Pages 227-238 | Received 13 Jun 2016, Accepted 28 Dec 2016, Published online: 07 Feb 2017
 

ABSTRACT

Numerical simulations of the turbulent flow around single and side-by-side piles at different spacing ratios (centre-to-centre distance to the pile diameter) with flow Reynolds number of 105 on the fixed flat-bed are presented. The calculations are performed using the computational fluid dynamics model, FLOW-3D, which solves the Navier–Stokes equations in three dimensions with a finite-volume method. The numerical results of time-averaged flow patterns around single and side-by-side piles are validated using the available experimental measurements. At the downstream of the single pile, dimensionless vortex shedding frequency (Strouhal number) is estimated as 0.22. The maximum values of bed shear stress around side-by-side piles at different spacing ratios are compared with the maximum values obtained for the single pile. Interactions of horseshoe vortices on different cases of side-by-side piles are studied. Numerical results show that the critical arrangement for which the largest bed shear stress was observed is the case with the spacing ratio of 3.

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Mr Aslani-Kordkandi for his great efforts on experimental investigations. The authors wish to thank the Editor Professor James Ball and also three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments which helped to improve the final manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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