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Computational Details:

"`Moving flaps' for different flow configurations (by C.M. Mueller)" Back to >>`Moving flaps' for different flow configurations (by C.M. Mueller)<<


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/width of channel: 14/3
  • diameter of flaps: 0.5
  • maximum angular speed of flaps: variable
  • Dirichlet b.c.'s on flap surface (= differentiation of the flap speed)
  • Dirichlet b.c.'s for right inflow with parabolic profile of different order
  • natural b.c.'s on the right edge
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at walls of the channels
  • initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=100 up to 1/nu=1,000




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level ?): 132 cells, 161 vertices, 716 d.o.f.`s
  • same tensor product mesh for ALL TIME STEPS and ALL CONFIGURATIONS!!!
  • computation/visualization on level 6: 33,792 cells, 34,241 vertices, 169,856 d.o.f.`s
  • computation on level 7: 135,168 cells, 136,065 vertices, 677,632 d.o.f.`s
  • nonconforming nonparametric rotated bilinear fem's (meanvalue version),UPW




Description of the temporal discretization

  • adaptive time stepping for computations
  • time stepping for visualization of order k=0.025 (= 1 frame)
  • total time T=8 seconds corresponds up to more than thousand time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 02/20/99
  • simulation by:C.M.Mueller/S.Turek
  • visualization by: C.M. Mueller
  • SUN workstations (different types)
  • AVS data: several hundreds of MB's, CPU times up to several days (on the finest level 7!!!)
  • Software: FEATFLOW1.1 + CC2D_MOVBC




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.
  • Some problem-specific data for the applied software version including parameter files and input data can be downloaded here!!!!




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