Transverse galloping of circular cylinders fitted with solid and slotted splitter plates

The galloping response of a circular cylinder fitted with three different splitter plates and free to oscillate transverse to a free stream has been investigated considering variations in plate length and plate porosity. Models were mounted in a low mass and damping elastic system and experiments have been carried out in a recirculating water channel in the Reynolds number range of 1500 to 16 000. Solid splitter plates of 0.5 and 1.0 diameter in length are shown to produce severe galloping responses, reaching displacements of 1.8 diameters in amplitude at a reduced velocity of around 8. Fitting a slotted plate with a porosity ratio of 30% also caused considerable vibration, but with a reduced rate of increase with flow speed. All results are compared with the typical vortex-induced vibration response of a plain cylinder. Force decomposition in relation to the body velocity and acceleration indicates that a galloping mechanism is responsible for extracting energy from the flow and driving the oscillations. Visualisation of the flow field around the devices performed with PIV reveal that the reattachment of the free shear layers on the tip of the plates is the hydrodynamic mechanism driving the excitation.     

A unified approach to aerodynamic damping and drag/lift instabilities,and its application to dry inclined cable galloping

Inclined cables of cable-stayed bridges often experience large amplitude vibrations. One of the potential excitation mechanisms is dry inclined cable galloping, which has been observed in wind tunnel tests but which has not previously been fully explained theoretically. In this paper, a general expression is derived for the quasi-steady aerodynamic damping (positive or negative) of a cylinder of arbitrary cross-section yawed/inclined to the flow, for small amplitude vibrations in any plane. The expression covers the special cases of conventional quasi-steady aerodynamic damping, Den Hartog galloping and the drag crisis, as well as dry inclined cable galloping. A nondimensional aerodynamic damping parameter governing this behaviour is proposed, which is a function of only the Reynolds number, the angle between the wind velocity and the cable axis, and the orientation of the vibration plane. Measured static force coefficients from wind tunnel tests have been used with the theoretical expression to predict values of this parameter. Two main areas of instability (i.e. negative aerodynamic damping) have been identified, both in the critical Reynolds number region, one of which was previously observed in separate wind tunnel tests on a dynamic cable model. The minimum values of structural damping required to prevent dry inclined cable galloping are defined, and other factors in the behaviour in practice are discussed.     

基于节段模型试验的宽幅箱梁涡振性能气动措施优化

为了研究宽幅流线型箱梁断面的涡振性能,以某跨越长江的大跨悬索桥为背景,进行1∶50节段模型风洞试验。分析了检修轨道、人行道栏杆等涡振敏感构件的影响,研究了改变人行道栏杆形式、附加斜腹板导流板以及风嘴分流板等气动措施的制振效果。研究结果表明,宽幅箱梁涡振性能随来流攻角增大而逐渐变差,且由于漩涡Strouhal数的变化易诱发多区间涡振,扭转涡振幅值随阻尼增加线性衰减显著。人行道栏杆是此类断面的涡振敏感构件,去掉栏杆踢脚石能明显改善涡振性能;斜腹板导流板对改善其涡振性能效果微弱;风嘴分流板具有显著的制振效果,不仅能有效地抑制主梁涡振的发生,且能提高颤振临界风速。     

连续体覆冰导线模型的舞动实验研究

建立了适合连续体覆冰导线舞动实验的专用风洞,以连续体单跨覆冰单导线模型为实验对象,采用激光传感器测量了导线不同位置处的位移响应,得到了导线在不同风速下的舞动振型,利用力传感器得到了导线舞动时的动张力。结果表明:覆冰导线在来流风场作用下进行舞动,在随风速增大的过程中先后经历了两个大幅舞动阶段,一阶模态和二阶模态在两个阶段中分别被激发;动张力幅值与舞动幅值基本成正比,动张力频率包含导线模型舞动频率的一倍频和二倍频。在大风速时,导线模型的舞动为多阶模态的耦合振动,在舞动过程中无固定的波峰和结点。     

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from concurrent vortex-induced vibrations and base excitations

We investigate the potential of using a piezoelectric energy harvester to concurrently harness energy from base excitations and vortex-induced vibrations. The harvester consists of a multilayered piezoelectric cantilever beam with a circular cylinder tip mass attached to its free end which is placed in a uniform air flow and subjected to direct harmonic excitations. We model the fluctuating lift coefficient by a van der Pol wake oscillator. The Euler–Lagrange principle and the Galerkin procedure are used to derive a nonlinear distributed-parameter model for a harvester under a combination of vibratory base excitations and vortex-induced vibrations. Linear and nonlinear analyses are performed to investigate the effects of the electrical load resistance, wind speed, and base acceleration on the coupled frequency, electromechanical damping, and performance of the harvester. It is demonstrated that, when the wind speed is in the pre- or post-synchronization regions, its associated electromechanical damping is increased and hence a reduction in the harvested power is obtained. When the wind speed is in the lock-in or synchronization region, the results show that there is a significant improvement in the level of the harvested power which can attain 150 % compared to using two separate harvesters. The results also show that an increase of the base acceleration results in a reduction in the vortex-induced vibrations effects, an increase of the difference between the resonant excitation frequency and the pull-out frequency, and a significant effects associated with the quenching phenomenon.     

Periodic and quasiperiodic galloping of a wind-excited tower under external excitation

The galloping of tall structures excited by steady and unsteady wind may be periodic or quasiperiodic (QP) with amplitudes having the same order of magnitude. While the onset of periodic and QP galloping was studied, their control on the other hand has received less attention. In this paper, we conduct analytical study on the effect of a fast harmonic excitation on the onset of periodic and QP galloping in the presence of steady and unsteady wind. We consider the cases where the unsteady wind activates either external excitation, parametric one or both. A perturbation analysis is performed to obtain close expressions of QP solution and the corresponding modulation envelopes. We show that at various loading situations, the periodic and QP galloping onset is significantly influenced by the amplitude of the fast external excitation. In the case where the unsteady wind activates parametric excitation, the QP galloping occurs with higher frequency modulation compared to the case where the unsteady wind activates external excitation. In the case where external and parametric excitations are activated simultaneously, fast harmonic excitation eliminates bistability in the amplitude response and gives rise to a new small QP modulation envelope.     

圆柱附加旋转整流罩表面压力分布及气动力特性

对圆柱附加固定整流罩的已有研究表明,它在降低升阻力和抑制涡激振动方面有优良的效果。但固定整流罩具有方向敏感性,当来流方向改变后效果会受到显著影响,甚至起到增加升阻力和加剧涡激振动的反作用。本文给圆柱附加了圆弧直径为40mm,形状夹角α分别为30°、45°、60°、75°和90°五种尺寸的旋转整流罩,并进行了风洞实验。其中整流罩可以自由地围绕圆柱轴线旋转。实验结果表明:旋转整流罩在流体力产生的力矩作用下,旋转至一个偏离尾流中心线固定角度的动态平衡位置,而平衡位置偏转角δ随着形状夹角α的增大而增大。附加旋转整流罩后,相对单圆柱能够提高尾迹区域压力,并能使时均阻力和脉动升力分别在α=30°和α=75°时获得最大43.5%和67.0%的降低。此外,对于小α(α≤60°)情况,漩涡脱落频率明显高于单圆柱情况,而对于大α(α≥75°)情况,则与单圆柱情况相接近。所有旋转整流罩升力主频的幅值较之单圆柱有了很大程度的降低,可见旋转整流罩在抑制漩涡脱落方面有很好的效果。     

基于3自由度的新月形覆冰输电线舞动稳定性研究

针对覆冰输电线舞动问题提出了一种基于非对称空气动力系数矩阵的临界风速计算方法．基于拟静态理论得到覆冰输电线的气动载荷,该气动载荷考虑了横向运动以及扭转运动对相对风攻角的影响,最后建立等效的3自由度覆冰输电线舞动模型．在初始风攻角处对气动载荷进行泰勒展开,得到非对称的线性空气动力系数矩阵．结合3自由度振动方程以及非对称空气动力系数矩阵,采用Rourh-Hurwitz准则计算覆冰输电线舞动发生的临界风速．通过风洞实验测得新月型覆冰单导线的空气动力系数,根据本文提出的理论分析了竖向振动频率、面外振动频率以及扭转振动频率对临界风速的影响,最后与DenHartog理论得到的临界风速进行了对比．本文研究成果对于指导覆冰输电线路防舞设计具有理论意义．     

FLOW-INDUCED MULTIPLE-MODE VIBRATIONS OF GATES WITH SUBMERGED DISCHARGE

An experimental investigation of flow-induced vibrations of gates with multiple degrees of freedom is presented. An underflown vertical gate plate with submerged discharge was allowed to oscillate both in the cross-flow (z -) and in the streamwise (x -) direction. The two purposes of the investigation were to further the insight into the hydrodynamic coupling mechanisms of the two vibration modes and to determine the interaction of the unsteady lift and drag forces. Self-excited vibration tests were run with reduced velocities V_rzandV_rx from 0·8 to 14, covering a range in which the instability-induced excitation (IIE) due to impinging-leading-edge vortices (ILEV) as well as the transition to galloping (MIE) occurred. The ratio of the natural frequencies of the two vibration modes f_{x 0}/f_{z 0}, the gate opening ratios /d, and the submergence of the gate plate were varied. Depending on the ranges of reduced velocities and frequency ratios, a complex interaction of two different kinds of instability-induced excitation was detected. Furthermore, it was found that streamwise IIE-excitation and cross-flow galloping coexist. To assess the relevant fluid dynamic amplification and attenuation mechanisms, simultaneous body response and flow velocity measurements were carried out.     

On the quasi-steady analysis of one-degree-of-freedom galloping with combined translational and rotational effects

Galloping is the low-frequency, self-excited oscillation of an elastic structure in a wind field. Its analysis is commonly based on a quasi-steady aerodynamic analysis, in which the instantaneous wind forces are derived from force data obtained in static wind tunnel tests. For the galloping of a rigid prismatic beam the validity of the quasi-steady assumption is critically assessed for the case that rotational effects must be included in the aerodynamics. An oscillator structure with one (torsional) degree of freedom is proposed which allows a reliable modelling. Its effective motion can be considered as being composed of a translation with a coupled rotation of the cross section, and can be regarded as a natural extension of pure translational galloping. The analysis reveals that the resulting aerodynamic damping is determined by the sectional aerodynamic normal force coefficient alone. An aerodynamic damping coefficient is defined that can be expressed uniquely in terms of an aerodynamic amplitude, allowing a normalization of the galloping curve. This result can be used to analyze both purely translational and combined galloping, which are found to differ only by the way the structural amplitude (displacement) is related to the aerodynamic amplitude. An interesting result is that for large wind speeds rotational galloping displays an aerodynamic limit, in contrast to translation galloping where the limit-cycle amplitude increases linearly with wind speed. Results obtained from wind tunnel experiments confirm the major findings of the analysis.     

Enhanced galloping energy harvester with cooperative mode of vibration and collision

The low power and narrow speed range remain bottlenecks that constrain the application of small-scale wind energy harvesting. This paper proposes a simple, low-cost, and reliable method to address these critical issues. A galloping energy harvester with the cooperative mode of vibration and collision (GEH-VC) is presented. A pair of curved boundaries attached with functional materials are introduced, which not only improve the performance of the vibration energy harvesting system, but also convert more mechanical energy into electrical energy during collision. The beam deforms and the piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) generates electricity during the flow-induced vibration. In addition, the beam contacts and separates from the boundaries, and the triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) generates electricity during the collision. In order to reduce the influence of the boundaries on the aerodynamic performance and the feasibility of increasing the working area of the TENG, a vertical structure is designed. When the wind speed is high, the curved boundaries maintain a stable amplitude of the vibration system and increase the frequency of the vibration system, thereby avoiding damage to the piezoelectric sheet and improving the electromechanical conversion efficiency, and the TENG works with the PEH to generate electricity. Since the boundaries can protect the PEH at high wind speeds, its stiffness can be designed to be low to start working at low wind speeds. The electromechanical coupling dynamic model is established according to the GEH-VC operating principle and is verified experimentally. The results show that the GEH-VC has a wide range of operating wind speeds, and the average power can be increased by 180% compared with the traditional galloping PEH. The GEH-VC prototype is demonstrated to power a commercial temperature sensor. This study provides a novel perspective on the design of hybrid electromechanical conversion mechanisms, that is, to combine and collaborate based on their respective characteristics.

     

Circular cylinder wakes and vortex-induced vibrations

This paper presents a selective review of recent research on vortex-induced vibrations of isolated circular cylinders and the flow and vibration of circular cylinders in a tandem arrangement; a common thread being that the topics raised are of particular interest to the author. The influence of Reynolds number on the response of isolated cylinders is presented and recent developments using forced vibration are discussed. The response of a cylinder free to respond in the in-line and transverse directions is contrasted with that of a cylinder responding in only one direction. The interference between two circular cylinders is discussed and prominence given to the case of cylinders in a tandem arrangement. The origin of the time–mean lift force on the downstream cylinder is considered together with the cause of the large amplitude transverse vibration experienced by the cylinder above vortex resonance. This wake-induced vibration is shown to be a form of vortex-induced vibration.     

Experimental investigation of wind-induced vibrations of main cables for suspension bridges in construction phases

The main cables of suspension bridges show a changing cross-sectional shape with the evolution of construction phases, and they may suffer from severe wind-induced vibrations at certain conditions. The primary objective of this research was to examine the aerodynamic performance of the main cable in construction phases and to develop appropriate countermeasures to eliminate the potential wind-induced vibrations. Two cross-sections with different shapes of a main cable were chosen, and a series of wind tunnel tests were performed in a reduced wind velocity range of 32–366 using elastically mounted sectional models. Galloping occurred for the two cross-sections under certain wind incidence angles when a critical velocity was reached. No obvious hysteresis phenomenon of galloping was observed in the tests. The steady amplitude of galloping increased linearly with wind velocity and the increasing rate almost kept constant for different structural damping ratios. The aerodynamic nonlinearity, rather than the structural damping nonlinearity, is the main source leading to the limited amplitude oscillation. An empirical expression of galloping amplitudes for the two cross-sections was derived based on the test data. Meanwhile, the critical wind velocity was studied in a Scruton (Sc) number range of 108–4196 (as varied by changing the initial structural damping ratio between 0.093% and 3.62%). Results showed that the Den Hartog criterion was applicable to forecast the possibility of galloping, but not able to estimate the critical wind velocity for the main cable. Linear fitting method can be used to predict the critical velocity based on the experimental data. Finally, three vibration mitigation measures were studied, and a combination of structural and aerodynamic measures was recommended for galloping mitigation of main cables.     

Effect of internal flow on vortex-induced vibration of risers

Although there are many studies dedicated to the problem of vortex-induced vibration (VIV) of marine risers, VIV experiments with internally flowing fluid have not been carried out before. In order to investigate this area, the present experiment with an internally flowing fluid and external current was designed. The riser was towed in the water flume with varying internal flow speeds. The tests in still water and in a current were conducted successfully. Various measurements were obtained including the frequency responses and the time-domain tracing of in-line and cross-flow responses. The experimental results exhibit several valuable features. First, with an increase in internal flow speed, the response amplitude increases while the vibration frequency decreases. Secondly, internally flowing fluid lessens the correlation of the vibration between different sections. In addition, by plotting both in-line strain and cross-flow strain simultaneously, a figure-of-eight for bending strain is also observed, and the trajectories in different cycles are more concordant with the increase of internal flow speed.     

Effect of Unsteady Wind Flow on Galloping of Tall Prismatic Structures

The galloping of tall prismatic cantilevertype structures due to unsteady wind is solvedanalytically. The unsteady wind was considered byadding a time varying wind speed component to the meanwind speed component. In reality, the time-varyingwind speed component is a random phenomenon that can bemodeled as a series of harmonic terms using thetransformation of the unsteady wind speed spectruminto the time domain. In doing this it is apparentthat the structure is subjected to multiharmonicexternal and parametric excitations due to theunsteady wind in addition to the nonlinearself-excited wind forces due to the steady wind speedcomponent. To have a clear insight into the unsteadywind effect, only one harmonic term is considered outof all the harmonic terms. The multiple-scale methodis used to study the effect of primary and secondaryresonances on the galloping response of the structure. Comparisons between the analytical results obtainedfrom the method of multiple scales and the numericalsolutions obtained from numerical integration indicate the accuracy of the analysis and thecomprehensive information obtained from the analyticalsolutions.     

Nonlinear characterization of concurrent energy harvesting from galloping and base excitations

An energy harvester is proposed to concurrently harness energy from base and galloping excitations. This harvester consists of a triangular cross-sectional tip mass attached to a multilayered piezoelectric cantilever beam and placed in an incompressible flow and subjected to a harmonic base excitation in the cross-flow direction. A coupled nonlinear-distributed-parameter model is developed representing the dynamics of the transverse degree of freedom and the generated voltage. The galloping force and moment are modeled by using a nonlinear quasi-steady approximation. Under combined loadings and when the excitation frequency is away from the global natural frequency of the harvester, the response of the harvester mainly contains these two harmonic frequencies. Thus, the harvester’s response is generally aperiodic and is either periodic with large period (i.e., period- \(n\) ), or quasi-periodic, or chaotic. To characterize the harvester’s response under a combination of vibratory base excitations and aerodynamic loading, we use modern methods of nonlinear dynamics, such as phase portraits, power spectra, and Poincaré sections. A further analysis is then performed to determine the effects of the wind speed, frequency excitation, base acceleration, and electrical load resistance on the performance of the harvester under separate loadings.     

RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS OF WIND EXCITED CABLES WITH ARTIFICIAL RIVULET

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不同控制角下附加圆柱对圆柱涡激振动影响

在弹性支撑的圆柱周围布置直径更小圆柱会影响剪切层发展以及旋涡脱落,进而改变其涡激振动状态.通过不同的布置形式和附加小圆柱个数可以实现对圆柱涡激振动的促进或抑制.激励更大幅值的振动可以更好地将水流动能转化为可利用的机械能或电能,抑制其振动则可以实现对海洋平台等结构物的保护.采用基于迭代的嵌入式浸入边界法对前侧对称布置两个小圆柱的圆柱涡激振动进行数值模拟研究,系统仅做横向振动,其中基于主圆柱直径的雷诺数为100,质量比为2.0,折合流速为3~11.小圆柱与主圆柱的直径比为0.125,间隙比为0.125.结果表明,在研究的控制角范围内(30°~90°),附加小圆柱可以很大程度上改变圆柱涡激振动的状态.当控制角较小(30°)时,附加小圆柱对主圆柱的振动起抑制作用;当控制角为45°~60°时,圆柱的振动分为涡振和弛振两个阶段,在弛振阶段,圆柱振幅随折合流速增加而持续增加;当控制角较大(75°~90°)时,附加小圆柱的促进作用随着控制角增加而减小.进一步地,结合一个周期内不同时刻旋涡脱落以及圆周压强分布,解释了附加小圆柱对主圆柱涡激振动的作用机制.应用能量系数对圆柱系统的进一步分析发现,弛振阶段由流体传递到主圆柱的能量系数随折合流速的增加逐渐下降,旋涡结构的改变是产生这种变化的直接原因.      

Experimental investigation of the flow-induced vibration of a curved cylinder in convex and concave configurations

Experiments have been conducted to investigate the two-degree-of-freedom vortex-induced vibration (VIV) response of a rigid section of a curved circular cylinder with low mass-damping ratio. Two curved configurations, a concave and a convex, were tested regarding the direction of the flow, in addition to a straight cylinder that served as reference. Amplitude and frequency responses are presented versus reduced velocity for a Reynolds number range between 750 and 15 000. Results for the curved cylinders with concave and convex configurations revealed significantly lower vibration amplitudes when compared to the typical VIV response of a straight cylinder. However, the concave cylinder showed relatively higher amplitudes than the convex cylinder which were sustained beyond the typical synchronisation region. We believe this distinct behaviour between the convex and the concave configurations is related to the wake interference taking place in the lower half of the curvature due to perturbations generated in the horizontal section when it is positioned upstream. Particle-image velocimetry (PIV) measurements of the separated flow along the cylinder highlight the effect of curvature on vortex formation and excitation revealing a complex fluid–structure interaction mechanism.     

Fluid-Damping Controlled Instability in Tube Bundles Subjected to Air Cross-Flow

There are different excitation mechanisms that cause fatal damages due to undesirable vibrations in heat exchanger tube bundles subjected to cross-flow. One of them is the fluid-damping-controlled instability (galloping) that is characterised by a sudden appearance of large amplitudes of the tubes exclusively in cross-flow direction. This paper reports on investigations using an experimental set-up in a wind tunnel where the galloping mechanism in a tube bundle can be observed as an isolated phenomenon. The apparatus allows to realise several tube bundle configurations and geometry's of real heat exchangers. The position of a flexible test tube with a linear iso-viscoelastic mounting inside the tube array is variable. The test tube is equipped with dynamical pressure sensors which are placed directly under pressure holes inside the tube. For the investigation of the acting fluid forces the non-stationary pressure distribution is measured simultaneously at 30 points on the circumference in mid plane and at 15 points in line along the tube together with the tube motion. The acting fluid forces are determined by integration of the whole pressure field process. The study gives insights into the effect of the fluid-damping-controlled instability that is still not fully understood. Moreover, a flow visualization gives an impression of the mechanism at relevant Reynolds-numbers. The results show that in case of instability due to galloping the correlation length of the forces acting along the tube axis increases suddenly to large values. The fluid forces are correlated well for the whole tube when galloping is dominant. The exciting fluid forces show harmonic character and lead to a classical resonance behaviour. Instead of a simple free vibration test in vacuum or still air, which is done mostly for fluid excited structures, the damping coefficient of the oscillating system is determined under operating conditions on the basis of the measured fluid forces. A comparison of the results with those of a free vibration test in still air is shown. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.