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Table 1 Aerodynamic characteristics of flow over a square cylinder obtained by experiments

From: RANS and hybrid LES/RANS simulations of flow over a square cylinder

 

Incoming flow intensity (%)

Re/103

St

-Cpb

CD

CD'

CL'

Lyn and Rodi [5]

2

21.4

0.132

1.6

2.1

  

Vickery [29]

smooth

100

0.118

1.31

  

1.33

Noda and Nakayama [4]

0.2

68.9

0.131

1.483

2.164

0.207

1.18

Noda and Nakayama [4]

5.3

68.9

0.133

1.318

1.989

0.203

1.105

Bearman and Obasaju [2]

<  0.04

11 to 47

0.127

1.65

   

<  0.04

20

    

1.2

Nishimura and Taniike [3]

0.1

40

 

1.3

2.32

0.245

1.32

Igarashi [30]

0.5

22

0.126~0.131a

1.29~1.35a

   

0.5

37

  

2.22

  

0.5

56

  

2.18

  

Durao et al. [31]

6

14

0.133

    

Lee [32]

smooth

176

 

1.42

2.17

  

0.5

176

0.122

1.29

2.06

  

Liu et al. [33]

0.7

4.06

  

2.18

  

0.7

9.55

  

2.107

  

0.7

18.1

  

2.201

  

0.7

32.2

  

2.09

  

0.7

45.8

0.135

 

2.084

 

1.1

0.7

58.2

  

2.02

  

Alam et al. [34]

0.5

47

0.128

 

2.15

0.27

1.18

  1. a Experimental measurements differ from each other with different choice of side dimension (D) of the square cylinder
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