2D CFD Flutter under Deterministic Free-stream Gust

The animation shows flutter and limit cycle oscillations of the Great Belt Bridge, subjected to sinusoidal vertical gust with identical frequency as the torsional frequency.

The deterministic free-stream turbulence is generated using my in-house code VXturb and the CFD solver is Guido Morgenthal’s VXflow. Thanks also to Samuel Tesfaye, who helped with the video.

igor kavrakov
igor kavrakov
DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow | Darwin College Research Fellow

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