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The crossflow past a heated cylinder was investigated in the Reynolds number range of 0.001–40 and for temperature loadings 1.003 to 1.5. For the simulation a new blockwise local refinement procedure was employed. Comparison of this procedure with computations on conventional block structured grids demonstrates the advantages of the new method. The numerical investigation revealed a strong dependence of the drag coefficient on the size of the computational domain. The analysis of the Nusselt number results led to the suggestion of a different representation of this quantity.
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Lange, C.F., Breuer, M., Durst, F. (1997). Simulation of the Flow Past a Circular Cylinder Using Local Block Refinement. In: Körner, H., Hilbig, R. (eds) New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 60. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-86573-1_28
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