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"(Regularized) Driven Cavity (I) at low Reynolds number with 2 interior circles" Back to >>(Regularized) Driven Cavity (I) at low Reynolds number with 2 interior circles<<


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




Description of the flow problem

  • rectangular domain of height 3 and width 5 with two interior circles
  • Dirichlet b.c.'s: parabolic u-velocity profile with maximum value of 1 at the top
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at fixed walls
  • initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=250




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 2): 52 cells, 75 vertices, 308 d.o.f.`s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 6: 13,312 cells, 13,695 vertices, 67,328 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 7: 53,248 cells, 54,015 vertices, 267,776 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=0.083333
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.25 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T=100 seconds corresponds to 1,200 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 12/16/97
  • simulation by: M.Bundschuh
  • visualization by: M.Bundschuh
  • SUN ULTRA1/140: 42 MB, 27,255 seconds
  • AVS data: 869 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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