Sushil Mohan Ratnaker1, Sanjay Mittal1,2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.80, No.3&4, pp. 179-200, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2011.080.179
Abstract Flow past a circular cylinder looses stability at Re ~ 47 via Hopf bifurcation. The eigenmode responsible for the instability leads to the von Kármán vortex shedding. In this work the linear stability of the flow to other modes, near the critical Re, is investigated. In particular, the study explores the possibility of modes other than the Kármán mode having the largest growth rate for Re < Recr. To this extent, global linear stability analysis (LSA) of the steady flow past a circular cylinder is carried out for Re = 45 and 48. In addition to the Kármán modes, two… More >
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