Vibration of nuclear power plant components can cause fretting wear and fatigue that eventually lead to component failure. Flexible, high-aspect-ratio under flow, such as the wire-wrapped cylindrical fuel elements in a liquid metal-cooled fast reactor core, are particularly susceptible vibration due their low natural frequencies. The flow-induced vibrations experienced by tend be random amplitu...

The flow-induced vibration (FIV) of a rectangular cylinder with side ratio 4 at Re = 300 is numerically investigated by two-dimensional spectral-element method. constrained to vibrate only in the cross-flow direction. effects mass and damping are studied. Boss typical FIV, vortex-induced (VIV), galloping were found. Although quasi-steady theory predicts that will not occur for 4:1 cylinder, we ...

A T-junction is a fundamental fluid element prevalent in pipe networks of water supplies and power plants. In the present study, a double T-junction was investigated for flow instability and fluid vibration. Both axi-aligned and skewed double T-junctions are examined from viewpoint of flow instability. With single-phase flow in an open-ended double T-junction, fluid vibration is induced in both...

Flow and flow-induced vibration of a square array of cylinders are investigated by two-dimensional numerical simulations. Flow past 36 cylinders in an inline arranged square array and 33 cylinders in a staggered arranged square array is firstly simulated, for Re=100 and the spacing ratios of L/D=1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5. Only one vortex street is observed in the wake of the cylinder array when the spaci...

We present experimental and computational results that describe the level, distribution, and importance of velocity fluctuations within the venous anastomosis of an arteriovenous graft. The motivation of this work is to understand better the importance of biomechanical forces in the development of intimal hyperplasia within these grafts. Steady-flow in vitro studies (Re = 1060 and 1820) were co...