The invention provides a spanwise length prediction method for numerical calculation of cylindrical streaming of
oscillatory flow, and belongs to the field of computational fluid
mechanics. According to an
oscillatory flow incoming flow velocity field, a cylinder
diameter and
fluid viscosity of a to-be-simulated problem, a two-dimensional
oscillatory flow cylinder streaming numerical calculation model is established based on a direct numerical
simulation method, and a
fully developed two-dimensional periodic base flow is obtained; and further based on a Floquet stability
analysis method, establishing a three-dimensional stability analysis model, applying linear perturbation of different wavelengths to the base flow, and obtaining a relation curve of a Floquet multiplier mu and a
wavelength lambda by solving a linearized Navier-Stokes equation, thereby determining a characteristic
wavelength lambda enabling the mu to be the maximum value, and taking the characteristic
wavelength lambda as the spanwise
characteristic length of cylindrical streaming of the oscillatory flow under the working condition. According to the method, a theoretical basis is provided for setting of the spanwise length in three-dimensional numerical
simulation, the precision and reliability of
oscillating flow cylinder streaming numerical
simulation are effectively improved, and the method is suitable for hydrodynamic analysis and design of structures such as a floating tunnel in ocean
engineering.