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Computational Details:

"Flow over a Forward Facing Step at medium Reynolds number" Back to >>Flow over a Forward Facing Step 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

  • nonstationary 2D channel flow over a "forward facing step"
  • channel width: before/after step/total: 3/10/13
  • channel height: before/after step: 1/0.5
  • inflow b.c.'s: parabolic with maximum velocity 1
  • outflow b.c.'s: natural "do nothing" b.c.'s
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at fixed walls
  • initial condition at t=0: starting fully developped
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=100,000




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 1): 11 cells, 22 vertices, 75 d.o.f.`s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 6: 23,552 cells, 23,969 vertices, 118,592 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 8: 376,832 cells, 378,497 vertices, 1,887,488 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=0.0055556
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.0333334 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T=10 corresponds to 1,800 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 09/09/97
  • simulation by: S.Turek
  • visualization by: S.Turek
  • SGI PowerIndigo2/R10: 310 MB, 282,283 seconds
  • AVS data: 1,188 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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