Lifting of an ellipsoid in a pressure driven Poiseuille flow
Lifting of an ellipsoid in a horizontal pipe of square cross section
containing an incompressible viscous fluid driven by pressure drop in
the horizontal direction for 0 < t < 8.
- The flow is periodic in the horizontal direction.
- The dimension of computational domain = (0,1)x(0,2)x(0,1).
- The initial position is at the bottom of the pipe.
- Three semi-axes are 0.1, 0.1, 0.2.
- The density of tha ellipsoid is 1.01.
- The density of fluid is 1.
- The viscosity is 0.1
- The mesh size for the velocity field = 1/80.
- The mesh size for the pressure = 1/40.
- The time step=0.001.
- The pressure drop is 16 per unit length.
- The last two second averaged ellipsoid speed is 6.05 (after reaching stable height).
- The last two second averaged particle Reynolds number 24.2
- The stable height of the mass center after lifting = 0.159
- The mass center has been stayed under the central axis and the ellipsoid turns its broadside
perpendicular to the stream main direction.