The adventure 🏕 🚵 I started a while ago to make my own CFD 🌬 code / software 💻 for my digital CV and to make a shiny new turbulence mode (one-day perhaps) is going along nicely. This post is about a 2D 10% flat plate undergoing forced heaving motion. Heaving motion is achieved by Eqn. 1.
hy = Ho*sin(2*π*fh*t) Eqn. 1
w.r.t. Eqn. 1 reduced frequency is defined as (fh*Ho/U∞)), fh is the frequency of oscillations, while t is the instantaneous time. Ho is the heaving amplitude and U∞ is the free stream velocity. hy is the position of the flat plate. The animation is shown in Fig. 1.
The Strouhal number is 0.228 and Reynolds number is at 500. As we can see, the in-house CFD code works very well for this complex CFD simulation. Validation of this work will never be completed 😆. As soon, I will move on to the next project without completing this one. Anyway, discretized Navier-Stokes equations are available here, in both C++ and MATLAB formats if you want to validate this non sense yourself! Good Luck!
The animation from in-house CFD simulation
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