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Old   April 5, 2016, 03:48
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I am trying to simulate a low Re (Re=100) flow past two cylinders in tandem and I am unable to get vortex shedding which is quite obvious and also reported in literature. When I tried ANSYS Mesh unstructured mesh I was able to get proper results, but when I tried to make a structured mesh with ICEM CFD, I am unable to reproduce proper results. I must say that I am a newbie in ICEM and I have a hunch that my meshing is not proper. So I am attaching the image of my mesh. Kidnly suggest how to go about it.

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Hello all

I am trying to simulate a low Re (Re=100) flow past two cylinders in tandem and I am unable to get vortex shedding which is quite obvious and also reported in literature. When I tried ANSYS Mesh unstructured mesh I was able to get proper results, but when I tried to make a structured mesh with ICEM CFD, I am unable to reproduce proper results. I must say that I am a newbie in ICEM and I have a hunch that my meshing is not proper. So I am attaching the image of my mesh. Kidnly suggest how to go about it.

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with this mesh you cannot get any results, let alone vortex shedding

Create ogrid around both circles and run the solution.
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with this mesh you cannot get any results, let alone vortex shedding

Create ogrid around both circles and run the solution.
Thanks Far.

I knew mesh was the culprit. However, I am not able to figure out how to create O grid meshing around 2 circles. I was able to do it successfully for a single circle. With 2 circles, when I try to split block around small circle, it intercepts with the larger circle. Kindly suggest any tutorials where I can learn about blocking for these kind of geometries.

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which cylinder is upstream? smaller or larger?
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Smaller cylinder is upstream and the gap between them is 1.2 times the diameter of the bigger cylinder.
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In the mean time I tried creating two separate O grid blocks around 2 circles and it looks like this. I'm pretty sure it is not correct. Could you kindly suggest what changes I could make?
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which cylinder is upstream? smaller or larger?
Could you please suggest how to make a blocking in this case? I'm not able to figure out perfect blocking strategy so far. Any help would be much appreciated.
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