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Computational Details:

"Perpendicular pipe flow into a channel at medium Reynolds number" Back to >>Perpendicular pipe flow into a channel at medium Reynolds number<<


Description of the flow problem
Description of the spatial discretization
Description of the temporal discretization
Computer requirements
Mathematical details




Description of the flow problem

  • length of channel before/in/after the lower inlet/total: 6.3/0.2/6.3/12.8
  • height of channel/lower pipe : 1.0/1.0
  • inflow b.c.'s: constant with velocity 1 at the lower pipe side
  • outflow b.c.'s: natural "do nothing" b.c.'s at the right and left side
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at fixed walls
  • initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=10,000




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 1): 18 cells, 30 vertices, 112 d.o.f.`s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 6: 18,432 cells, 18,785 vertices, 92,864 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 8: 294,912 cells, 296,321 vertices, 1,477,376 d.o.f.`s
  • nonconforming nonparametric rotated bilinear fem's (meanvalue version), UPW




Description of the temporal discretization

  • equidistant time stepping for computation with k=0.011111112
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.166666666 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T=40 seconds corresponds to 3,600 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 01/20/98
  • simulation by: S.Turek/L.Seioukova
  • visualization by: L.Seioukova
  • SUN ULTRA2/200: 250 MB, 352,352 seconds
  • AVS data: 730 MB
  • Software: FEATFLOW1.0 + BOUSS




Mathematical details

  • For more details about numerical and algorithmic aspects see the `Mathematical Background' in the FEATFLOW manual or visit our paper archive for much more details.
  • The problem-specific data for the applied software version including parameter files and input data can be downloaded here!




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