Drag on a Cylinder with an Apple-Shaped Cross Section
- 1 Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Saitama, Japan
- 2 Faculty of Science and Engineering, Toyo University, Saitama, Japan
- 3 Daikirika Kogyo Inc., Saitama, Japan
- 4 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Saitama, Japan
Abstract
The drag on a cylinder with an apple-shaped cross section was studied numerically in this paper. This cross section is adopted because the drag on an apple is known to be lower than that of a sphere. Since the hollows of an apple seem to be points of drag reduction, two-dimensional numerical simulations of cylinders with hollows of several shapes are carried out at a Reynolds number of 6.7 × 104 by using the vortex method to check their effects. The cylinder with hollows like those of a real apple attained a 13% reduction in drag compared with a circular cylinder. Other geometrical hollow-shapes, namely, V-shaped and U-shaped grooves, also reduced drag from the circular model, but these effects were less pronounced than those of the apple-shaped cross section. It was concluded that an apple-like hollows were effective for drag reduction of a cylin-der as well as a sphere.
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