Tongming Zhou

Prof. Tongming Zhou

Department of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
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Academic Career Length

23Years (2004-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 July 2014 in Journal of Fluids and Structures
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MRMehran Rahmanian
Mehran Rahmanian
LCLiang Cheng
Liang Cheng
MZMing Zhao
Ming Zhao
Tongming ZhouTongming Zhou
Tongming Zhou

13 February 2009 in Experiments in Fluids
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Siti Fatin Mohd RazaliSiti Fatin Mohd Razali
Siti Fatin Mohd Razali
YZY. Zhou
Y. Zhou
LCL. P. Chua
L. P. Chua
LCL. Cheng
L. Cheng

1 June 2019 in Applied Ocean Research
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Hongjun ZhuHongjun Zhu
Hongjun Zhu
HZHonglei Zhao
Honglei Zhao
Tongming ZhouTongming Zhou
Tongming Zhou

1 January 2010 in Physics of Fluids
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HWH. Wang
H. Wang
Siti Fatin Mohd RazaliSiti Fatin Mohd Razali
Siti Fatin Mohd Razali
YZY. Zhou
Y. Zhou
LCL. Cheng
L. Cheng
Using a phase-averaged technique, the dependence of the wake vortical structures on cylinder yaw angle α (=0°–45°) was investigated by measuring all three-velocity and vorticity components simultaneously using an eight-hot wire vorticity probe in the intermediate region (x/d=10) of a yawed stationary circular cylinder wake. For all yaw angles, the phase-averaged velocity and vorticity contours display apparent Kármán vortices. It is found that when α≤15° , the maximum coherent concentrations of the three vorticity components do not change with α . However, when α is increased to 45°, the maximum concentrations of the coherent transverse and spanwise vorticity components decrease by about 33% and 50%, respectively, while that of the streamwise vorticity increases by about 70%, suggesting that the strength of the Kármán vortex shed from the yawed cylinder decreases and the three dimensionality of the flow is enhanced. The maximum coherent concentrations of u and v contours decrease by more than 20% while that of w increases by 100%. Correspondingly, the coherent contributions to the velocity variances ⟨u2⟩ and ⟨v2⟩ decrease, while that of ⟨w2⟩ increases. These results may indicate the generation of the secondary axial vortices in yawed cylinder wakes when α is larger than 15°. The incoherent vorticity contours ⟨ωxr2⟩ are stretched along an axis inclining to the x -axis at an angle β in the range of 60°–25° for α=0°–45° . The magnitudes of ⟨ωxr2⟩∗ and ⟨ωyr2⟩∗ through the saddle points are comparable to the maximum concentration of the coherent spanwise vorticity ω̃z∗ at all cylinder yaw angles, supporting the previous speculation that the strength of the riblike structures in the cylinder wake is about the same as that of the spanwise structures, even in the yawed cylinder wakes.

4 July 2023 in Ocean Engineering
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Hongjun ZhuHongjun Zhu
Hongjun Zhu
BXBing Xu
Bing Xu
Md. Mahbub AlamMd. Mahbub Alam
Md. Mahbub Alam
YGYue Gao
Yue Gao
Tongming ZhouTongming Zhou
Tongming Zhou

1 November 2018 in Journal of Fluids and Structures
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Hongjun ZhuHongjun Zhu
Hongjun Zhu
YZYing Zhao
Ying Zhao
Tongming ZhouTongming Zhou
Tongming Zhou