Computational Details:

"Flow through the character 'm' at medium Reynolds number"

• height of the character: 1.4
• width of the character: 2
• thickness of the character: 0.1
• inflow speed 1 at the left side
• natural outflow at the rigth side
• zero speed at the walls
• inflow temperature 1 at the left side
• natural b.c.'s for temperature at the walls
• initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
• viscosity parameter: 1/nu=100,000

• coarse mesh (=level 1): 55 cells, 112 vertices, 387 d.o.f.'s
  

  
  
  

• uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
• visualization on level 5: 14,080 cells, 14,977 vertices, 72,192 d.o.f.'s
• computational mesh on level 6: 56,320 cells, 58,113 vertices, 285,184 d.o.f.`s
• nonconforming nonparametric rotated bilinear fem's (meanvalue version), UPW

• equidistant time stepping for computation with k=0.003703704
• equidistant time stepping for visualization with k= 0.033333334 (= 1 frame)
• Total time T= 10 seconds corresponds to 2,700 time steps
• fractional step theta scheme

• date: 06/01/99
• simulation by: M.A.Trefzer/S.Turek/J.Acker/L.Rivkind
• visualization by: M.A.Trefzer
• SUN ULTRA1/140MHZ 120 MB, 101,274 seconds
• GMV data: 1.2 GB
• Software: FEATFLOW1.1 (BOUSS)

• 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!