Paper Title
Fluid Flow Behavior around a Cam Shaped Cylinder Embedded with Backward Splitter Plate

Abstract
The bluff bodies of various shapes are usually employed in many industrial applications, such as cross-flow heat exchangers, risers in offshore engineering, and industrial chimneys. The vortex shedding suppression is mostly needed to balance periodic forces and reduce drag. The drag using splitter plate is widely acceptable and in the present work, a numerical study is carried to study flow pattern in a cam shaped cylinder embedded with backward splitter plate. The splitter length to cylinder diameter ratio (L/D) varies from 0.5 to 6 for Reynolds number of 200. The splitter plate suppresses the vortex shedding and two critical lengths of splitter plates are identified and defined as L1cr and L2cr. The values of critical lengths at Reynolds number of 200 is found as L/D = 4 = L1cr and L/D = 5 and above = L2cr. Keywords - Cam Shaped Cylinder, Splitter Plate, Vortex Shedding.