Flow over a Backward Facing Step at low Reynolds number

Flow over a backward facing step at low Reynolds number, starting from rest. The flow reaches its steady state immediately.

This simulation is one of the oldest in the 'Virtual Album', and it is a student version!

• Distribution of temperature/concentration via Boussinesq model
  
  

  Visualization via distribution of a given concentration in the flow field, via starting particles at the inlet (shaded, 0.8 MB).
  

  
  
  
  
  

• Pressure
  
  

  Visualization via pressure plots, shaded (first, 0.1 MB) and via isolines (second, 0.3 MB).
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Streamfunction
  
  

  Visualization via streamline plots, shaded (first, 0.1 MB) and via isolines (second, 0.4 MB).
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Velocity
  
  

  Visualization via vector plots (vectors, 0.6 MB).