Abstract
The flow around cylinders is one of the most fundamental phenomena in extracting wave energy from ocean waves. Compared with flows around a single cylinder, the investigation of flows around multiple cylinders is still limited and requires further studies to reveal flow characteristics. To this end, large eddy simulations are conducted to investigate the flow around double cylinders with crosswise and streamwise arrangements. Systematic studies on the influence of the number of mesh cells, the first near-wall mesh size, and the transient time step are carried out to achieve accurate and efficient simulations. The drag coefficient, flow separation, and flow pattern for different arrangements under various cylinder spacings are analyzed according to simulation results. For the crosswise arrangement, the flow pattern switches from the single-body regime to the synchronized vortex-shedding regime as the spacing increases. For the streamwise arrangement, the flow pattern develops from the reattachment regime to the vortex-shedding regime as the spacing increases.
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