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Finite-difference computaion of the Navier-Stokes equations has a long history. One of the earliest work was done by M. Kawaguti1) by using mechanical hand calculator in the early fifties. He computed a steady flow around a circular cylinder at Reynolds number 40 (Fig.1). He says in his paper “the nummerical integration in this study took about one year and a half with twenty working hours every week, with a considerable amount of labor and endurance”. With the appearance and development of electronic computers, this type of computation became easier and easier. However, the high-Reynolds-number-f1ow computation had remained difficult. The Reynolds numbers of the computed flows were less than 1000 in most cases.
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Kuwahara, K. (1986). Development of High-Reynolds-Number-Flow Computaion. In: Kuwahara, K., Mendez, R., Orszag, S.A. (eds) Supercomputers and Fluid Dynamics. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82908-6_3
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