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The details of the physical mechanisms that ultimately lead to the inaccurate prediction of surface pressure and consequently the lift and drag are still not clear. A detailed investigation has been performed and it is found that the over-prediction of mean drag force in two-dimensional simulations is directly related to higher Reynolds stresses in the wake.","The mechanism by which streamwise vortical structures are generated in free-shear flows is not completely understood. Some studies attribute the generation to a core-instability mechanism whereas others attribute it to a braid-instability. The present simulation afford us an opportunity to investigate this issue in detail. For the wake of a circular cylinder, it is observed that streamwise structures are formed in the near wake both due to stretching of core vorticity which escapes out of the core and due to stretching of small scale streamwise vorticity already present outside the core.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:33:33Z (GMT). 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