Visualization of the flow around rotating cylinder

The visualization of the flow around a rotating and standing cylinder has been performed in air. This visualization has been performed for two velocities of a freestream for Reynolds numbers Re = 920 a 990 and for four frequencies of the rotation (0 s-1, 5 s-1, 12.5 s-1 and 20 s-1). The results have been compared with the theoretical model – potential flow. The velocity of the freestream has been evaluated by measurement of the frequency of the shedding vortices behind the standing cylinder in the regime of the Kármán vortex street. In the regime of the Kármán vortex street the Reynolds numbers were Re = 110 a 120. The known relations between Stouhal and Reynolds numbers were used