Project of Glycerin Tank at Low Reynolds.

• Grant number: 10/18794-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2011
• End date: January 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Naval and Oceanic Engineering - Marine and Ocean Structures
• Principal Investigator: Gustavo Roque da Silva Assi
• Grantee: Bruno Medeiros Leite
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project´s focus is repair and adjust an NDF´s (Núcleo de Dinâmica e Fluidos) former water tank, making it able to function at low Reynolds and be used at NDF from EPUSP (Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo). The tank going to be used to make experiments and studies of phenomena, for example, vortex induced vibration (VIV) as well as the hydrodynamic efforts and coefficients associated. The choice of glycerin as working fluid is due by the fact that it has a high viscosity and consequently helps a lot to obtain a lower Reynolds. After the tank´s validation it going to elaborate a displacement desk fixed to a cylinder where it going to realize experiments of forcibly oscillating cylinder and then compare with the results that already exist in literature.