ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Turbulence Characteristics of Flow Field around
a Cylindrical Obstacle Placed in
a Trapezoidal Channel
Ömer Köse
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Department of Civil Engineering, Aksaray University, 68100 Aksaray Turkey
Submission date: 2017-04-18
Final revision date: 2017-06-29
Acceptance date: 2017-08-19
Online publication date: 2018-02-06
Publication date: 2018-03-12
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2018;27(3):1113-1121
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This paper describes measurements of the turbulence surrounding a vertical cylinder in a steady flow.
The approximate size of circulations and eddies produced by a cylindrical obstacle subject to steady flow
in a trapezoidal channel are investigated. A four-component high-sampling frequency acoustic doppler
velocimeter (ADV) was used to collect flow data, which were filtered using effective filtering algorithms
before being processed. Because the turbulence is three dimensional, calculations were performed for all
three directions. The energy distribution and dependence of the fluctuating velocities were determined and
interpreted using an autocorrelation function and spectral analysis. Important turbulence statistics were
calculated, including Reynolds stresses, integral time scales, and integral length scales. For representative
points, the approximate size of the turbulent eddy was calculated. A spectral density function was
generated and analyzed. The results show that highly coherent and dependent structures are visible in the
wake vortices region for each axis..