Everything about Bluff

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BluffA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Recent advances in understanding the flow over bluff bodies with different geometries at moderate Reynolds numbersInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A crime against laborThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Vortex Shedding from Oscillating Bluff BodiesCited 1,343 times
5. Go sideways: White RockA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MoranA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Vortex Shedding from Oscillating Bluff Bodies

  P W Bearman · 1984 · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 1,343 citations

• Control of Flow Over a Bluff Body

  Haecheon Choi, Woo-Pyung Jeon, Jinsung Kim · 2008 · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 996 citations

• The mechanics of the formation region of vortices behind bluff bodies

  J. H. Gerrard · 1966 · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 852 citations

• Lean blowoff of bluff body stabilized flames: Scaling and dynamics

  Santosh J. Shanbhogue, Sajjad Husain, Tim Lieuwen · 2009 · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science · 608 citations

• On the Wake and Drag of Bluff Bodies

  ANATOL ROSHKO · 1955 · Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences · 548 citations

• Comparison of LES and RANS calculations of the flow around bluff bodies

  W. Rodi · 1997 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics · 525 citations

• The instability of the shear layer separating from a bluff body

  ANIL PRASAD, CHARLES H. K. WILLIAMSON · 1997 · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 420 citations

• Perspectives on bluff body aerodynamics

  A. Roshko · 1993 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics · 419 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Recent advances in understanding the flow over bluff bodies with different geometries at moderate Reynolds numbers

  Malakonda Reddy Lekkala, Mohamed Latheef, Jae Hwan Jung · 2022 · Ocean Engineering · 89 citations

• A review of experiments on stationary bluff body wakes

  Behzad Forouzi Feshalami, Shuisheng He, Fulvio Scarano · 2022 · Physics of Fluids · 82 citations

• Etching metasurfaces on bluff bodies for vortex-induced vibration energy harvesting

  Junlei Wang, Ye Zhang, Ming Liu · 2023 · International Journal of Mechanical Sciences · 77 citations

• Blockage effect on wakes of various bluff bodies: A review of confined flow

  Ramnarayan Mondal, Md. Mahbub Alam · 2023 · Ocean Engineering · 61 citations

• Effect of multiple bluff bodies on hydrogen/air combustion characteristics and thermal properties in micro combustor

  Yi Zhang, Qingbo Lu, Baowei Fan · 2023 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 61 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A crime against laborGurdon Wattles · 1909
• Marsh's dinosaursJohn H. Ostrom, John S. McIntosh · 1966
• Ball's BluffByron Farwell · 1990
• Hon. Edward D. Baker, U.S. Senator from Oregon ..John D. Baltz · 1888
• Baker at Ball's BluffJ. Hampton Moore · 1911
• Boil my heart for meH. Baxter Liebler · 1969
• Ball's Bluff: An Episode and Its Consequences to Some of UsCharles Lawrence Peirson · 1913
• The contest for California in 1861Kennedy, Elijah Robinson · 1912

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