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Vorticity‐streamfunction formulation of unsteady incompressible flow past a cylinder: Sensitivity of the computed flow field to the location of the outflow boundary
Author(s) -
Behr M.,
Liou J.,
Shih R.,
Tezduyar T. E.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1650120403
Subject(s) - outflow , stream function , potential flow around a circular cylinder , vorticity , flow (mathematics) , incompressible flow , mechanics , two dimensional flow , compressibility , boundary (topology) , sensitivity (control systems) , streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines , cylinder , computational fluid dynamics , geometry , geology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , open channel flow , vortex , meteorology , engineering , electronic engineering
The influence of the location of the outflow computational boundary on the unsteady incompressible flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds number 100 is examined. The vorticity‐streamfunction formulation of the Navier‐Stokes equations is used in all computations. Two types of outflow boundary conditions are subjected to a series of tests in which the domain length is gradually reduced. The traction‐free condition performs well in most cases and allows the outflow boundary to be located as close as 6.5 cylinder diameters from the body. The other boundary condition type is not as forgiving, but has the advantage of being simpler to implement and can still provide reasonably accurate solutions. It is also observed that both condition types can influence the flow field strongly and globally when the boundary is brought closer than 2.5 diameters from the body. In such cases the temporal periodicity of the solution is lost.