CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS ›› 1985, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (4): 462-468.

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A AXISYMMETRIC FINGERING PROBLEM SOLVED BY FEM

Cao Nian-zheng, Chen Yao-song   

  1. Department of Mechanics, peking university
  • Received:1984-01-04 Revised:1985-10-14 Online:1985-12-25 Published:1985-12-25

Abstract: A low Reynolds unmber flow in a pipe with an air plug is studied by FEM, The incompressibility is treated with penalty function. The nonlinear free surface is found by iteration of its position with updated critical streamline,The ultimate free surface and its relative plug radius β=0.645 is obtained and seems very nice as compared to experimental values.