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Computational Details:

"Flow around a (volley)ball (I) at medium Reynolds number" Back to >>Flow around a (volley)ball (I) at medium 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

  • length of channel: 2.2, height 0.4, diameter of circle: 0.05
  • inflow b.c.'s: parabolic with (maximum) velocity 1.5 at the left edge
  • outflow b.c.'s: natural "do nothing" b.c.'s
  • circle b.c.'s: rotational tangential speed of size 0 (no slip), 0.1, 1 and 5
  • other b.c.'s: zero velocity at fixed walls
  • initial condition at t=0: starting from fully developed
  • viscosity parameter: 1/nu=5,000




Description of the spatial discretization

  • coarse mesh (=level 1): 130 cells, 156 vertices, 702 d.o.f.`s



  • uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
  • visualization on level 4: 8,320 cells, 8,528 vertices, 42,016 d.o.f.`s
  • computational mesh on level 6: 133,120 cells, 133,952 vertices, 667,264 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=0.00111112
  • equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.01 (= 1 frame)
  • Total time T=2.5 corresponds to 2,250 time steps
  • fractional step theta scheme




Computer requirements

  • date: 11/20/97
  • simulation by: S.Turek/H.Scharr
  • visualization by: S.Turek/H.Scharr
  • SUN ULTRA 30/300MHZ: 114 MB, 67,015 seconds (each about)
  • AVS data: 350 MB (each about)
  • 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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