Flow over a circular cylinder with detached short splitter-plates is numerically simulated in order to assess the suppression of periodic vortex shedding. A finite-volume solver based on the Cartesian-staggered grid is implemented, and the ghost-cell method in conjunction with Great-Source-Term technique is employed in order to enforce directly the no-slip condition on the cylinder boundary. The accuracy of the solver is validated by simulation of the flow around a single circular cylinder. The results are in good agreement with the experimental data reported in the literature. Finally, the flows over a circular cylinder with splitter-plate in its downstream (off and on the centerline) are computed in $Re=40$ as a nonvortex shedding case and in $Re=100$ and 150 as cases with vortex shedding effects. The same simulations are also performed for the case where dual splitter-plates are in a parallel arrangement embedded in the downstream of the cylinder. The optimum location of the splitter-plate to achieve maximum reduction in the lift and drag forces is determined.

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