O escoamento ao redor de cilindros inclinados, ou escoamento oblíquo, é um problema bastante comum em diversas áreas da engenharia. Embora o escoamento ao redor de um cilindro não inclinado consista em um tópico clássico e bastante estudado no contexto da mecânica dos fluídos, os estudos investigativos do escoamento oblíquo existem em menor número. O procedimento mais adotado para o estudo do escoamento ao redor de um cilindro inclinado é o Princípio da Independência, que atesta que todas as características da esteira dependem unicamente da componente da correnteza incidente que é ortogonal ao eixo do cilindro. Visando um melhor entendimento do escoamento ao redor de cilindros rígidos e inclinados, três grupos de experimentos foram conduzidos com cilindros inclinados tanto à montante como à jusante. Cinco ângulos de inclinação, definidos entre o eixo do cilindro e a direção ortogonal à da correnteza foram ensaiados, a saber: teta = 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° e 45°. No primeiro grupo de experimentos, os resultados obtidos com os cilindros estacionários inclinados à montante mostraram que o coeficiente de arrasto médio concorda com os resultados da configuração de referência, desde que a componente da correnteza incidente ortogonal ao eixo do cilindro seja utilizada na normalização da força. No tocante aos experimentos dos cilindros sujeitos ao fenômeno de vibrações induzidas pela emissão de vórtices com um ou dois graus de liberdade, existe um decréscimo da amplitude de oscilação dos cilindros com o aumento do ângulo de inclinação. Em todas as campanhas experimentais, foram verificadas diferenças entre os resultados obtidos com os cilindros inclinados à montante ou à jusante. Essa diferença é tão maior quanto maior for o ângulo de inclinação, e está associada à assimetria nas condições de extremidade do cilindro. / The flow around yawed cylinders, or oblique flow, is a common subject in several engineering applications. Despite the flow around a non-yawed cylinder consists on a classical and extensively investigated problem, there is a considerable lower number of investigation concerning the oblique flow. The most employed approach aiming at investigating the oblique flow is the so called Independence Principle, which states that the flow characteristics depend only on the component of the free-stream that is normal to the cylinder axis. Three groups of experiments were carried out aiming at a better understanding of the flow around yawed cylinders. Five yaw angles defined between the cylinder axis and the direction orthogonal to the free-steam were tested, namely: theta = 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° e 45°. From the first group of experiments, the results obtained with stationary cylinders yawed in the upstream orientation shown that the mean drag coeficient matches the classical results from the non-yawed cylinder, if the component of the free-stream that is orthogonal to the cylinder axis is employed in the normalization of the hydrodynamic force. Concerning vortex-induced vibrations experiments with one and two degrees-of-freedom, a decrease was observed in the maximum oscillation amplitude. For all the experiments, it was observed that the results obtained from the upstream orientation tests can be different from those obtained for the downstream orientation ones. The larger the yaw angle, the larger are the differences, which are associated to the asymmetric end conditions.

O escoamento ao redor de cilindros inclinados, ou escoamento oblíquo, é um problema bastante comum em diversas áreas da engenharia. Embora o escoamento ao redor de um cilindro não inclinado consista em um tópico clássico e bastante estudado no contexto da mecânica dos fluídos, os estudos investigativos do escoamento oblíquo existem em menor número. O procedimento mais adotado para o estudo do escoamento ao redor de um cilindro inclinado é o Princípio da Independência, que atesta que todas as características da esteira dependem unicamente da componente da correnteza incidente que é ortogonal ao eixo do cilindro. Visando um melhor entendimento do escoamento ao redor de cilindros rígidos e inclinados, três grupos de experimentos foram conduzidos com cilindros inclinados tanto à montante como à jusante. Cinco ângulos de inclinação, definidos entre o eixo do cilindro e a direção ortogonal à da correnteza foram ensaiados, a saber: teta = 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° e 45°. No primeiro grupo de experimentos, os resultados obtidos com os cilindros estacionários inclinados à montante mostraram que o coeficiente de arrasto médio concorda com os resultados da configuração de referência, desde que a componente da correnteza incidente ortogonal ao eixo do cilindro seja utilizada na normalização da força. No tocante aos experimentos dos cilindros sujeitos ao fenômeno de vibrações induzidas pela emissão de vórtices com um ou dois graus de liberdade, existe um decréscimo da amplitude de oscilação dos cilindros com o aumento do ângulo de inclinação. Em todas as campanhas experimentais, foram verificadas diferenças entre os resultados obtidos com os cilindros inclinados à montante ou à jusante. Essa diferença é tão maior quanto maior for o ângulo de inclinação, e está associada à assimetria nas condições de extremidade do cilindro. / The flow around yawed cylinders, or oblique flow, is a common subject in several engineering applications. Despite the flow around a non-yawed cylinder consists on a classical and extensively investigated problem, there is a considerable lower number of investigation concerning the oblique flow. The most employed approach aiming at investigating the oblique flow is the so called Independence Principle, which states that the flow characteristics depend only on the component of the free-stream that is normal to the cylinder axis. Three groups of experiments were carried out aiming at a better understanding of the flow around yawed cylinders. Five yaw angles defined between the cylinder axis and the direction orthogonal to the free-steam were tested, namely: theta = 0°, 10°, 20°, 30° e 45°. From the first group of experiments, the results obtained with stationary cylinders yawed in the upstream orientation shown that the mean drag coeficient matches the classical results from the non-yawed cylinder, if the component of the free-stream that is orthogonal to the cylinder axis is employed in the normalization of the hydrodynamic force. Concerning vortex-induced vibrations experiments with one and two degrees-of-freedom, a decrease was observed in the maximum oscillation amplitude. For all the experiments, it was observed that the results obtained from the upstream orientation tests can be different from those obtained for the downstream orientation ones. The larger the yaw angle, the larger are the differences, which are associated to the asymmetric end conditions.

Near wake is the region of wake flow just behind the trailing edge of the body where the flow is strongly influenced by the upstream flow conditions and also perhaps by the charac­teristics of the body. The present work is concerned with the study of the development of turbulent near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate. The turbulent near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate is the simplest of the three-dimensional turbulent near wake flows. The present study aims at providing a set of data on the turbulent near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate and also at understanding the development and structure of the near wake. Detailed measurements of mean and turbulent quantities have been made using 3-hole probe, X-wire and 3-wire hotwire probes. Further an asymptotic analysis of the two-dimensional turbulent near wake flow has been formulated for the near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate. The feature that the near wake which is dominated by mixing of the oncoming turbulent boundary layer retains, to a large extent, the memory of the turbulent structure of the boundary layer, has been exploited to develop this analysis. The analysis leads to three regions of the wake flow (the inner near wake, the outer near wake and the far wake) for which the governing equations are derived. The matching conditions among these regions lead to logarithmic variations in both normal and longitudinal directions in the overlapping regions surrounding the inner wake. These features are validated by the present results. A computational study involving seven well known turbulence models was also under­taken in order to assess the performance of the existing turbulence models in the prediction of the turbulent near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate. In this study all the seven models are implemented into a common flow solver code, thus eliminating the influence of grid size, initial conditions and different numerical schemes while making the comparison. This study shows that the K - e model performs better than other models in predicting the near wake behind an infinitely yawed flat plate.

This study presents a numerical investigation of ducted tidal turbines, employing three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations. Bidirectional ducted turbines are modelled with and without aperture, referred to as ducted and open- centre turbines respectively. The work consists of two investigations. In the first, the turbine rotors are represented by actuator discs, a simplification which captures changes in linear momentum and thus the primary interaction of the turbine with the flow through and around the duct, while greatly reducing computational complexity. In the second investigation, the turbine rotors are represented through a CFD-integrated blade element momentum model, employing realistic rotor data, capturing swirl and blade drag in addition to the extraction of linear momentum. Both modelling techniques were employed to investigate the performances of bare, ducted, and open-centre turbines, relating these to the flow fields exhibited. For axial flow, substantial decreases in power generated by the ducted and open-centre turbines were found, relative to a bare turbine of equal total device diameter. For open-centre turbines, an increase in aperture size leads to a further reduction in power generated. Increased blockage was shown to positively affect the performance of all devices. Two further measures of performance were employed: power density, normalising the power by the rotor area, and basin efficiency, relating the power generated to the overall power removed from the flow. Moderate increases in power density can be achieved for the ducted and open-centre devices, while their basin efficiencies are of similar value to that of the bare turbine. For yawed inflow, the performance of the bare turbine decreases, whilst that of the ducted and open-centre turbines increases. This is due to an increased flow velocity following flow acceleration around the inlet lip of the duct and also an increase in effective blockage as ducts present greater projected frontal area when approached non-axially.