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Description of the flow problem
Description of the spatial discretization
Description of the temporal discretization
Computer requirements
Mathematical details




Description of the flow problem

  • stationary 2D channel flow through two opposite bumps
  • symmetric configuration
  • channel domain of length 14 and height 1
  • height of lower bump 0.35, and of upper bump 0.35
  • 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 from rest
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=100




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 1): 5 cells, 12 vertices, 37 d.o.f.`s
  • shown mesh (=level 3): 80 cells, 105 vertices, 448 d.o.f.`s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 7: 20,480 cells, 20,865 vertices, 103,168 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 8: 81,920 cells, 82,689 vertices, 411,136 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=0.01111112
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.10 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T=30 corresponds to 2,700 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 07/01/97
  • simulation by: S.Turek
  • visualization by: S.Turek
  • IBM RS6000/590: 70 MB, 50,139 seconds
  • AVS data: 1,035 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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