Research Article

Large-Scale Computations of Flow around Two Cylinders by a Domain Decomposition Method

Table 1

Computation information.

NameSpacing ratio
()
Diameter ratio
()
Number of elementsNumber of DOFNonsteady loopsComputation time (h)

Model 1–1219,420,39314,130,5901000 5.15
Model 1–22.1519,466,41214,211,12310005.00
Model 1–32.519,566,55914,390,89110004.35
Model 1–4319,710,15714,649,87410004.85
Model 2–130.56,908,4699,309,73910003.10
Model 2–2319,710,15714,855,13510004.68
Model 2–340.510,146,35715,654,96410005.32
Model 2–4419,997,73615,312,58210004.74
Model 2–550.510,428,10116,114,29410004.97
Model 2–65110,283,88615,785,86110005.45
Model 2–760.510,715,63616,597,00610005.75
Model 2–86110,565,69616,259,74410005.53