Numerical simulation of the free fall of a rigid body in a viscous fluid

• ID: 2358, RIV: 10031796
• ISSN: not specified, ISBN: 80-7043-426-0
• source: Proceedings of the XVIth Summer School Software and Algorithms of Numerical Mathematics
• keywords: Numerical; simulation; rigid; viscous; fluid
• authors: Petr Knobloch, Petr Šedivý
• authors from KNM: Knobloch Petr

Abstract

We consider the problem of the free fall of a rigid body in a viscous fluid. We present a model of the problem, discuss various aspects of its finite element discretization and present some first numerical results.