Computational Details:

Study of 'Shell and Tube'-Heat-Exchanger exhibiting different tube arrangements

• Circular Domain of diameter 14.5
• Four heated circles of radius 1 each located at Xi =3.7123 and Yi=3.7123 and a heated blade located at the center(0,0). The width of each blades are 0.56 units and length of 2.25units.
  
• inflow b.c.'s: Natural boundry conditions.
• outflow b.c.'s:NAtural Boundry conditions.
• Other b.c.'s: Non zero velocity at a diameter of 5 units from the center.
• initial condition at t=0: starting from rest
• viscosity parameter: 1/nu=1,00,000

• coarse mesh (=level 1): 225 cells, 265 vertices, 1213 d.o.f.`s
  

  
  
  

• uniform refinements with exact boundary adaption
• visualization on level 4: 1,4400 cells, 1,4748 vertices, 72704 d.o.f.`s
• computational mesh on level 4: 1,4400 cells, 1,4748 vertices, 72704 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: 03/25/2004
• simulation by: Amar Bujang Hegde
• visualization by: Amar Bujang Hegde
• SUN ULTRA1/140: 12.39MB, 1143 seconds
• GMV data: 166.4MB
• Software: FEATFLOW1.2 + BOUSS

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