DRAG AND ROTATIONAL PROPERTIES OF CASCADES OF CIRCULAR CYLINDERS 
AT SMALL AND MODERATE REYNOLDS NUMBERS

A. B. Mazo and I. V. Morenko

UDC 532.516

An iteration method of calculating pressure by solving 
Navier-Stokes equations in stream function-vortex variables 
is proposed. A numerical investigation of the drag and the rotational 
properties of cascades of circular cylinders at small and moderate 
Reynolds numbers has been carried out.

Institute of Mechanics and Machine Manufacturing, 
Kazan' Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2/31 Lobachevskii 
Str., Kazan', 420111, Russia; email: amazo@ksu.ru, morenko@mail.knc.ru. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 
75-79, March-April, 2004. Original article submitted August 
8, 2003.