Computational Details:

"Flow around a rotating propeller at medium Reynolds number in 3D"

• length of the domain: 1.8
• height of the domain: 0.6
• width of the domain: 0.6
• diameter of the propeller: 0.45
• thickness of the propeller: 0.1
• inflow speed 1 at part of the left side
• fixed rotational speed 1 of the propeller
• outflow at part of the right and upper side
• other b.c.'s: zero velocity at the fixed walls
• initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
• viscosity parameter: 1/nu=100

• coarse mesh (=level 1): 9 cells, 24 vertices, 111 d.o.f.'s
  

  
  
  

• uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
• visualization on level 5: 36,864 cells, 38,769 vertices, 374,016 d.o.f.`s
• computational mesh on level 6: 294,912 cells, 302,305 vertices, 2,970,624 d.o.f.`s
• nonconforming nonparametric rotated trilinear fem's (meanvalue version), UPW

• adaptive time stepping for computation
• adaptive time stepping for visualization with about k=0.1 (= 1 frame)
• Total time T=14 seconds corresponds to 100 macro time steps
• Fractional step theta scheme

• date: 04/06/99
• simulation by: S.Turek
• visualization by: J.F.Acker
• SUN ULTRA60/300 MHz: 379 MB, 389,321 seconds
• GMV data: 590 MB
• Software: FEATFLOW1.2 (CC3D_MOVBC)

• 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!