Papers by Keyword: Spectral Element

Abstract: The physical phenomena of vortex suppression and flow patterns by deploying a very mall control cylinder in the near wake region of a main cylinder in low Reynolds numbers is studied numerically. The control diameter effect on vortex suppression and three flow patterns has been studied. The results shows the control cylinder can reduce vortex shedding frequency and suppress shedding partially or completely dependent on the diameter of control cylinder and Reynolds number. The results of a cylinder with control and without control agree with experimental and numerical studies.

Abstract: This paper develops a spectral element model for elastic-elastic two-layered beams. First, the axial-bending coupled equations of motion for an elastic two-layer laminated beam are derived. The spectral element model is then formulated by using the wave solutions satisfying governing equations in frequency-domain as the frequency-dependent shape functions. The spectral element model is finally applied to a cantilevered elastic-elastic two-layered beam as an illustrative problem. The high accuracy of the present spectral element model is verified by comparing the SEM results with those obtained by conventional FEM.