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ABSTRACT

Computational Flow Simulations around Circular Cylinders Using a Finite Element Method

Kazuhiko Kakuda¹, Masayuki Sakai¹, Shinichiro Miura²

1 Department of Mathematical Information Engineering, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, Chiba 275-8575, Japan. E-mail: k7kakuda@cit.nihon-u.ac.jp
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology, Tokyo 140-0011, Japan

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2008, 5(4), 199-204. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2008.005.199

Abstract

The applications of a finite element scheme to three-dimensional incompressible viscous fluid flows around circular cylinders are presented. The scheme is based on the Petrov-Galerkin weak formulation with exponential weighting functions. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are numerically integrated in time by using a fractional step strategy with second-order accurate Adams-Bashforth scheme for both advection and diffusion terms. Numerical solutions for flow around a circular cylinder are presented. The parallelization and the performance of the present scheme are also checked.

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