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Flow visualization was used to investigate experimentally the evolution process from symmetrical shedding to staggered shedding of the starting vortex and the phenomenon of secondary separation on an elliptic cylinder at moderate Reynolds numbers. The vortex structure of the flow separation was studied. The temporal variation of separation angle and length of wake vortex were given.
The photographs and experimental results provided basis for further investigation of the complicated feature of the starting process of unsteady separated flows around an elliptic cylinder.
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Dieli, Z. The evolution of starting vortex and secondary separation on an elliptic cylinder. Acta Mech Sinica 5, 20–30 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02486682
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02486682