70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 19, 2017 — November 21, 2017)

V0015: Flexible cantilever in the wake of a cylinder

Authors
  • Veera Sajjanapu, Iowa State University
  • Thomas Ward, Iowa State University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2017.GFM.V0015

The video shows the behavior of a flexible cantilever beam in the wake of a cylinder. We use vertically falling soap films to visualize the flow and record the images at 5000 fps. We observe a lock-in behavior of the cantilver's free end in the midst of the downstream von karman vortex street generated from the cylinder. 

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