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Wind and Structures Volume 12, Number 1, January, 2009 , pages 1-19 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2009.12.1.001 |
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CFD based simulations of flutter characteristics of ideal thin plates with and without central slot |
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Zhi-wen Zhu, Zheng-qing Chen and Ming Gu
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| Abstract | ||
| In this paper, the airflow around an ideal thin plate (hereafter referred to as ITP) with various ratios of central slot is simulated by using the finite-difference-method (FDM)-based Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian descriptions for the rigid oscillating body. The numerical procedure employs the second-order projection scheme to decouple the governing equations, and the multigrid algorithm with three levels to improve the computational efficiency in evaluating of the pressure equation. The present CFD method is validated through comparing the computed flutter derivatives of the ITP without slot to Theodorsen analytical solutions. Then, the unsteady aerodynamics of the ITP with and without central slot is investigated. It is found that even a smaller ratio of central slot of the ITP has notable effects on pressure distributions of the downstream section, and the pressure distributions on the downstream section will further be significantly affected by the slot ratio and the reduced wind speeds. Continuous increase of with the increase of central slot may be the key feature of the slotted ITP. Finally, flutter analyses based on the flutter derivatives of the slotted ITP are performed, and moreover, flutter instabilities of a scaled sectional model of a twin-deck bridge with various ratios of deck slot are investigated. The results confirm that the central slot is effective to improve bridge flutter stabilities, and that the flutter critical wind speeds increase with the increase of slot ratio. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| ITP; central slot; CFD; projection-2 scheme; multigrid method; unsteady pressure; flutter. | ||
| Address | ||
| Zhi-wen Zhu Center of Wind Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering,Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China Zheng-qing Chen Center of Wind Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China Ming Gu State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering,Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China | ||