On the motion of a falling circular cylinder in flows after water entry

• Main Authors: New, Daniel Tze How, Lyu, Xujian, Wei, Zhaoyu, Tang, Hui, Li, Hua
• Other Authors: Quan, Chenggen
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: High-speed Camera; DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Freely Falling Circular Cylinder
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88903; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46999
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper reports an experimental investigation on the motion of a circular cylinder after it horizontally enters into a water flow with a certain slamming speed. A smart cylinder-releasing mechanism is designed to enable repeatable release of the cylinder. A high-speed camera is used to record the...