ABSTRACT
The flow-induced vibrations of tubes in a rotated triangular array subject to cross flow are investigated numerically and experimentally. The parameters are inlet velocity of cross flow, number of tube, and tube natural frequency. In the study, the instantaneous fluid forces on tube surfaces are computed numerically, the instantaneous displacement of the tubes due to the fluid forces is calculated, and thus the motions of the tubes in cross flow are described. Experiments are also conducted to compare the numerical results. The tube vibrations in a water tunnel are measured by two accelerometers. The amplitudes, spectra, and trace of tube motion are presented. The critical velocities of tube vibrations are then determined. Experimental results show that some tubes vibrate seriously when the flow velocity increases up to a critical value, and hysteresis of the tube vibrations is observed. In case of the seven-tube array, the tubes in the fourth row exhibit the most serious vibration. When the flow velocity is above the critical value, only one dominant frequency of the tube vibrations is detected, comparing to multiple dominant frequencies in subcritical condition. Furthermore, the tube in supercritical condition behaves like a limit cycle, especially when the natural frequency is equal to or near the vortex shedding frequency from the upstream tubes. It is also shown that the critical velocity decreases with more surrounding tubes in the upstream and does not change as more adjacent tubes are added in the downstream. However, the tube number seems to have no effect on the critical velocity when the tube natural frequency is far from the vortex shedding frequency.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0801102-191611 |
| Date | 01 August 2002 |
| Creators | Lin, Tsun-Kuo |
| Contributors | Ru Yang, Shou-Shing Hsieh, Jao-Hwa Kuang, Rong-Fung Huang, Ming-Huei Yu, F.B. Hsiao |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0801102-191611 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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