桥梁墩柱三维绕流特性精细化研究

为了深入研究桥梁墩柱水流力的特点及产生机理，对典型桥墩模型考虑自由液面影响时的三维绕流展开了精细化研究. 采用ANSYS FLUENT 作为数值模拟工具，研究了整个墩柱阻力和升力特点，并将墩柱模型从柱底到柱顶划分为5个分段，对比了各个分段阻力、升力特点及沿着水深的变化规律，进一步分析了自由液面、底部边界对漩涡结构的影响，阐述了流场三维特性与墩柱水流力之间的关系. 研究结果表明:墩柱水流力沿着水深是非一致分布的，墩柱分为5段（c1～c5），其中c1～c4分段阻力均值与圆柱整体受力的比值分别约为25%、30%、25%、20%，c5分段处于空气中受力贡献近似为0；另外阻力振幅、升力振幅中下部较大，而底部、中上部、液面处较小；漩涡交替脱落导致墩柱左右两侧自由液面交替起伏，自由液面对漩涡产生抑制作用，自由液面处产生多个尺度不同的漩涡，这与液面下仅有两个交替脱落的漩涡是不同的；墩柱中下部漩涡脱落比其余位置有所滞后，导致柱体不同分段处升力有明显的相位差；墩柱升力振幅与阻力均值分别为5.511 N和3.695 N，相差不大，升力引起的桥墩或桥梁的振动不可忽视. 

Refined Study on 3D Flow Characteristics around Bridge Piers

In order to investigate into the characteristics and mechanism of the current forces on bridge piers, a refined study on 3D flow around the typical pier model was conducted considering the influence of the free surface. ANSYS FLUENT was employed to address the characteristics of the drag force and lift force on the whole pier model. The pier model was divided into five sections from the bottom to top of the cylinder, characteristics of the drag and lift forces on each section were compared, and the variation law of the drag and lift forces along the water depth was analyzed. Further, the influences of the free surface and the bottom condition on vortex structure were analyzed and the relationship between 3D flow field and current force was discussed. Results show that the current force on pier is not uniformly distributed along the water depth; i.e., the mean value of drag force on cylinder sections c1?c4 accounts for 25%, 30%, 25% and 20%, respectively, of the total drag force on pier, and c5 contributes almost zero due to its exposure to air. The amplitudes of the drag and lift forces in the middle-lower part are larger than those at the bottom, middle-upper, and free surface parts of the water depth. Besides, the alternating vortex shedding causes alternating fluctuations of the free surface at the left and right sides of the cylinder. The free surface suppresses the vortex shedding, and vortices of different scales exist at the free surface, which are quite different from the two alternately shedding vortexes under the free surface. The vortex shedding at the middle-lower part of the pier lags behind the rest parts, resulting in a significant phase difference in the lift force at different parts of the cylinder. The lift force is comparable in magnitude to the average value of the drag force, for example which are respectively 5.511 N, 3.695 N in case 3, showing that the possible vibration of the pier or bridge caused by the lift force cannot be ignored.