Computational Details:

Study of 'Flow around a Heated Cylinder in a Channel`

• Rectangle domain of length 2.5, Width 1
• one heated circle of radius 0.3 and located at x = 1.75, y = 0.5
• inflow b.c.'s: constant velocity 1 at the left side i.e in between x=0, y=0 and x=0, y<=1
• outflow b.c's: unknown at the right top edge i.e. in between x=2.5, y=0 and x=2.5, y<=1
• Other b.c.'s: zero velocity at the fixed walls
• initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
• viscosity parameter: 1/nu=1,000

• coarse mesh (=level 1):36 cells, 50 vertices, 208 d.o.f.`s
  

  
  
  

• uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
• visualization on level 5: 9216 cells, 9440 vertices, 46528 d.o.f.`s
• computational mesh on level 5: 9216 cells, 9440 vertices, 46528 d.o.f.`s
• nonconforming nonparametric rotated bilinear fem's (meanvalue version), UPW

• equidistant time stepping for computation with k=0.01
• equidistant time stepping for visualization with k=0.25 (= 1 frame)
• Total time T=30 corresponds to 3,000 time steps
• fractional step theta scheme

• date: 04/02/2004
• simulation by: Talupula Sudhir
• visualization by: Talupula Sudhir
• SUN ULTRA1/140: 7.95 MB, 4622.46 seconds
• GMV data: 703 MB
• Software: FEATFLOW1.2 + BOUSS

• 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!