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Computational Details:

"Ring-shaped flow (II) around `SFB' and `IWR' at high Reynolds number" Back to >>Ring-shaped flow (II) around `SFB' and `IWR' at high 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

  • diameter of the outer circle: 2
  • diameter of the inner circle: 0.5
  • rotational speed 1 on both circles in different directions (tangential speed)
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at the characters
  • initial condition at t=0: starting fully developed
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=1,000,000




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 1): 82 cells, 119 vertices, 496 d.o.f.'s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 5: 20992 cells, 21674 vertices, 106336 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 7: 335872 cells, 338618 vertices, 1687608 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=0.016666667
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k= 0.2 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T= 50 seconds corresponds to 3000 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 08/25/98
  • simulation by: J.F.Acker,S.Turek
  • visualization by: J.F.Acker
  • SUN ULTRA1/170: 272 MB, 328775 seconds
  • AVS data: 931 MB
  • Software: FEATFLOW1.1 (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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