Research Article

Numerical Simulation of Vortex-Induced Transverse Vibration of a Cylinder with Very Low Mass Ratio

Figure 13

Upper branch showing 2P modes of numerical results at Ur = 4.67 with  = 2.4 and  = 0.622 (left) and PIV measurement results with  = 8.63 and  = 0.81 by Govardhan and Williamson [26] (right): (a) cylinder highest position; (b) cylinder zero displacement position when traveling downstream.
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