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Studies on Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on Vehicles under a Fluctuating Side-wind

Research Project

Project/Area Number 61550123
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Fluid engineering
Research InstitutionKanazawa University

Principal Investigator

OKAJIMA Atsushi  Faculty of Technology, Kanazawa University, Professor, 工学部, 教授 (80013689)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UENO Hisanori  Faculty of Technology, Kanazawa University, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (80019752)
NAGAHISA Taroh  Faculty of Technology, Kanazawa University, Associate Professor, 工学部, 助教授 (20019706)
Project Period (FY) 1986 – 1988
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1988)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1988: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1987: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
KeywordsBluff body / Side wind / Wake vortex / Fluctuation of side-force / Fluctuation of drag force / Vehicle / 風洞実験 / ブラフボデイ / 風洞 / 変動流体力
Research Abstract

The response of aerodynamic forces( a side and a drag forces ) on a vehicle model passing through a wake behind a main tower of a big suspension bridge has been investigated in a wind tunnel. A new device that makes a vehicle model run with a high speed has been constructed. We successfully extract a component due to a vortex-street from the unsteady side and drag forces on a vehicle model which has been neasured at the same time with an unsteady pressure on the side surface of a tower model. As additional experiments, a splitter-plate placed behind the tower model prevents the vortex street from shedding in the wake. Which makes the effects of the surviving velocity-gradient clear and a side and a drag forces on a vehicle which suddenly immerges in a uniform flow also has been measured.
Then we have prepared five vehicle models: three cylindrical (2-dimensional) models and two box (3-dimensional) models with a rectangular and a aquare sections, respectively. The results of the present … More study may be summarized as follows: (1) When a cylindrical model passes through the wake of the tower with a splitter plate, the aerodynamic forces are influenced by the effects of an apparent angle of attack, the interference between the flows around a tower and a vehicle, and the effects of transient characteristics of flow. In the case of box models, the aerodynamic forces are governed by the effects of the angle of attack. (2) The fluctuation in a side-force exerted on a cylindrical or a box models corresponds to the fluctuation in a wind velocity due to the vortex-street behind a tower, and the unsteady forces with a constant phase-angle referred to the vortex-movement remarkably increase when the cehicle gets out of the wake. (3) The unsteady forces on a box model respond more rapidly to the cahnge in wind velocity than ones on a cylindrical model. (4) The periods of the unsteady forces on the vehicles are found to get out of order influenced by its passing through the vortex-street. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 1988 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1987 Annual Research Report
  • 1986 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All Other

All Publications (9 results)

  • [Publications] 長久太郎: 日本機械学会論文集 B編. 485. 40-47 (1986)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 岡島厚: 日本機械学会論文集.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Taro, NAGAHISA; Atsushi OKAJIMA; Ryuji SHIBATA: "Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on a Vehicle Model Passing in a Wake" Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. B53-485. 40-48 (1987)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Atsushi OKAJIMA: "Unsteady Aerodynamic Forces on a Vehicle under a Fluctuating Side Wind" Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1988 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 長久太郎: 日本機械学会論文集 B編. 485. 40-47 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 岡島厚: 日本機械学会論文集.

    • Related Report
      1988 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 長久太郎: 日本機械学会論文集B編. 485. 40-47 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 岡島厚: 日本機械学会論文集.

    • Related Report
      1987 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 長久太郎: 日本機械学会論文集B編. 485. 40-47 (1986)

    • Related Report
      1986 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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