Finite element analysis of ideal flow over axisymmetric solid body /sphere/
Abstract
The finite element method is seen as one of the newest and most powerful of the numerical techniques being used for a wide range of physical problems involving complex geometries, multiply connected domains and complex boundary conditions. This technique is used here for predicting the flow pattern of an ideal fluid (potential flow) about an axisymmetric solid body, namely a sphere and the calculations of the velocities along the vertical line above the crest of the sphere by stream function formulations. It is observed that the accuracy of the finite element solution increases as the number of nodes and elements increases in the domain to be analyzed. The results obtained by this technique are found to be in excellent agreement with other available results.
- Publication:
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Indian Journal of Mechanical Engineering Division
- Pub Date:
- May 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982InJME..62..190B
- Keywords:
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- Axisymmetric Bodies;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Finite Element Method;
- Ideal Fluids;
- Potential Flow;
- Axisymmetric Flow;
- Isoparametric Finite Elements;
- Spheres;
- Stokes Flow;
- Stream Functions (Fluids);
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer