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Flow around a cylinder

ANSYS

In ANSYS Fluent, I conducted several simuations.

  • steady flow (at low Reynolds # (Re=20), equivalant to laminar flow)
unsteady flow (at high Reynolds #)
  • Different Mesh
  • Not patched (IDK what it fully means)

Paper

Catalano, Pietro, Meng Wang, Gianluca Iaccarino, and Parviz Moin. "Numerical simulation of the flow around a circular cylinder at high Reynolds numbers." International journal of heat and fluid flow 24, no. 4 (2003): 463-469

Remaining Questions

What is patching?

According to instructions, I had to 'patch' the flow so that it can reach vortex shedding fast. IDK what it means, and I didn't have time to conduct simulation again without 'patch' and compare with the one with it.