Parametric study of a two degree-of-freedom cylinder subject to vortex-induced vibrations

This numerical work is an attempt to build accurate and continuous response surfaces of two degree-of-freedom vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) of flexibly mounted cylinders for a wide range of transverse and in-line natural frequencies. We consider both the structure and the flow to be two-dimensional. The structure has a low mass damping, with the transverse and in-line mass ratios as well as the transverse and in-line damping coefficients being equal. The goal is to capture the sensitivity of the response to the change in the natural frequencies of the structure. The system is studied for a wide range of transverse natural frequency within the synchronization region. The extent of variation of the in-line natural frequency is chosen to be larger than the one of the transverse natural frequency in order to favor multi-modal responses. No preferred frequencies are emphasized within the intervals of study. The numerical technique uses a multi-element stochastic collocation method coupled to a spectral element based deterministic solver.