The Orbital Movement and the Damping of the Fluidelastic Vibration of Tube Banks Due to Vortex Formation: Part 1—The Interplay Between the Self-Excited Vibration of the Single Circular Cylinder and the Karman Vortex

In the present paper a series of experimental results obtained by several authors on the phenomena of the vortex street behind a vibrating cylinder are analysed. From this we can establish a flow model for the relationship between the vortex shedding, the cylinder movement, the vortex lift and the variation in the position of the separation point. This relationship reveals that a close synchronization of the vortex shedding and the lift generated by it will arise when the flow velocity enters the lock-in region. Furthermore, the flow model will enable us to predict the narrowing of the vortex street shed by a vibrating cylinder for certain Reynolds number ranges. The theory can thus qualitatively explain the corresponding phenomena observed by Koopmann, Griffin and Votaw.