Flow around Two Cam Shaped Cylinders in Tandem Arrangement

In this paper flow around two cam shaped cylinders had been studied numerically. The equivalent diameter of cylinders is 27.6 mm. The space between center to center of two cam shaped cylinders is define as longitudinal pitch ratio and it varies in range of
2 varies in range of 50 both cylinders depends on pitch ratio. However drag coefficient of downstream cylinder is more dependent on the pitch ratio.

• Arash Mir Abdolah Lavasani
• Hamidreza Bayat

• Cam shaped
• tandem cylinders
• numerical
• drag coefficient.

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