Abstract
We examine the effect of an incoming boundary layer state (laminar vs. turbulent) on the near wake of a surface-mounted square cylinder with a height-to-width aspect ratio of 4 at a Reynolds number ~${10}^{4}$. The mean wake structure for both cases is a dipole structure consisting of a counter-rotating pair of streamwise vortices extending from the recirculation region. For the laminar boundary layer case, the wake contains an additional vortex pair. We use oil-film flow visualizations over the base plate, reconstructed 3D phase-averaged velocity fields, and energy transfer between coherent and incoherent fields, to elucidate the influence of the boundary layer state.
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