Examples
Original EasyCFD worked cases
The images and captions follow the organization and terminology of the original website.
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Worked example
Laminar unsteady flow around a cylinder
Laminar flow around a cylinder at Re = 3.7 × 10³. The visualization illustrates the development of the von Kármán vortex street.
Tutorials and movies
Tutorial 2
Visualization movie
02
Worked example
Natural convection inside a cylindrical annulus
Laminar, steady natural convection in a concentric annulus for Pr = 0.7 and Gr = 5.0 × 10⁴. The original site notes two solutions associated with a bifurcation.
Tutorials and movies
Tutorial movie
03
Worked example
Conjugate heat transfer
Laminar, unsteady conjugate heat transfer in which solid conduction and fluid convection are solved simultaneously. An air region is surrounded by copper and steel blocks.
Tutorials and movies
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Visualization movie
04
Worked example
Turbulent flow around a vehicle
An example of external turbulent flow over a simplified vehicle shape.
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Worked example
Pulsatile flow inside a symmetric channel with wavy walls
This example uses table functions to impose a time-dependent inlet and outlet velocity over a cycle that includes flow reversal.
MoviesVisualization movie
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Worked example
Turbulent flow around a NACA 2412 airfoil
Turbulent flow over a NACA 2412 airfoil at Re = 3.2 × 10⁶ using an unstructured mesh. The tutorials include importing profile coordinates and calculating aerodynamic forces.