%0 Journal Article %T Fluid Flow Past a Circular Cylinder with Tandem Rod and Staggered Rod at Low Reynolds Number Fluid Flow Past a Circular Cylinder with Tandem Rod and Staggered Rod at Low Reynolds Number %A WU Wenbo %A WANG Jiasong %J 中国海洋大学学报(英文版) %D 2018 %X The flow past a primary cylinder with one tandem control rod and one staggered control rod is simulated in this paper through solving the Navier-Stokes equations.Two examples are simulated to validate the model,and the results matched well with those of previous researches.The Reynolds number based on the diameter of the primary cylinder is 500.The diameter ratio between the control rod and the primary cylinder(d/D) is 0.25.It was found that the effect of the combination of one upstream tandem control rod and one staggered control rod on the hydrodynamics of the primary cylinder is a linear superposition of the effect of a corresponding single control rod,and the effect of the upstream tandem control rod is dominant at larger spacing ratios such as G/D = 2.For the combination of a downstream tandem control rod and a staggered control rod,the effect of the control rods is different from that of the corresponding single control rod in the region of 0. %U http://qdhb.cbpt.cnki.net/WKD/WebPublication/paperDigest.aspx?paperID=93487c5c-bb30-4a33-aed8-99ae4889f678