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Forced flow in a tube:

In this example, a tube is create by a pair of periodic walls. The walls are individually created from two periodic lines and then a network struts holds the walls together. The flow is driven with a background force in the x direction. The IBIS file that creates the simulation in this case is:

domain 0.0 2.0 0.0 1.0
grid 6 0.0000165 1000
visual -h 256 -w 512 -n 20 -p binary -b bryo -y
graph -n 100 -p line -b bryol
#
#  fluid properties and background force
#
fluid -m 0.01 -r 1.0 
bforce -x 500.0 -b 0.1 -t 0.9
particles -d 4 
#
#  reset default springs for lines and links
#
spring l -b 100000.0 -s 40000000. -t 10000000.
spring L -s 40000000.
#
#  bottom wall
#
line 0.0 0.1 2.0 0.1 -N 1
line 0.0 0.08 2.0 0.08 -N 2
blink 1 2
#
#  top wall
#
line 0.0 0.9 2.0 0.9 -N 3
line 0.0 0.92 2.0 0.92 -N 4
blink 3 4

In this simple simulation, there are no active entities and no sources or sinks of fluid. Therefore, the standard udefine.f will suffice to run the simulation.

A graph of nearly steady flow for this simulation is shown in the next figure.



David Eyre
6/19/1998