Effects of surface roughness on two-degree-of-freedom vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder in oscillatory flow

Abstract

The vortex-induced vibration (VIV) response performances of a two-degree-of-freedom circular cylinder with different surface roughnesses were numerically investigated in this work. Four typical roughnesses values of 1 × 10−4, 5 × 10−3, 1 × 10−2, and 2 × 10−2 were examined for the range of the reduced velocity (Vr = 1–20). The VIV response characteristics including the vibration amplitude, vibration frequency, VIV trajectory, vortex shedding flowing pattern, and hydrodynamic force for different rough cylinders were systematically compared. The numerical results showed that the VIV response of roughness cylinder experiences five evolutions as Vr increases, including five typical X–Y trajectories: centrosymmetry, “M” or “W,” “dough twists” or “candy,” “∞,” and asymmetrical ∞, exhibiting three vortex shedding flow pattern: S mode, C + S mode, and SS mode (a pair of symmetric vortices along the x-axis) under certain conditions. The VIV response was sensitive to the roughness in regime IV and regime V. Furthermore, the normalized vibration frequency of the rough cylinder was an integer multiple of the oscillatory flow frequency, except for the Vr ranged from 6 to 7. The vibration frequency in in-line (IL) direction was consistent with the frequency of the oscillatory flow, which was immune to the change of roughness. Additionally, when roughness was equal to 2 × 10−2, the reduction of maximum vibration amplitude in the cross-flow direction reached 31.2%, comparing with smooth cylinder, whereas the maximum vibration amplitude in the IL direction increased only by 6.2%.