Measurements and Visualizations of the Unsteady Flow Field on a Freely Falling Plate

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Freely falling of a plate contains very complicated unsteady characteristics. In the past decades, most of the studies focused on the mode and trajectoryofa freely falling plate. In this paper, we use PIV to study the instantaneous flow structure and analyze the force exerted on the plate and the influence of the flow on the motion of the plate. As the Reynolds number increases, the flow structure will be changed from the stable mode to the chaotic mode,and it accompanies with a mode switching of the freely falling plate. However, there is no necessarilycorresponding with the stable flow structure, even for the freely falling plate with a stable mode.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 718-720)

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1049-1054

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July 2013

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