Viscous Fluid Flow Around an Elliptic CylinderUsing Finite Element Method

Date

2018-10

Type

Article

Journal title

University Bulletin

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 20

Author(s)

ZINAB MOHAMED AHMED MAATOUG

Pages

19 - 30

Abstract

In this paper we implement the Finite Element Method (FEM) tofind the possible solution of Laplace/Poisson equation in two dimension viscous flow. We will follow almost the same steps that have been taken by Dambaru D. Bhatta's paper "Fluid Flow around an Elliptic Cylinder using Finite Element Method" which published in journal of mathematical science and mathematics education [JMS & ME]. The fluid under the investigation is incompressible in term of velocity potential and stream function. Since Laplace/Poisson's equations areinvolved, then we used Dirichlet and Neumann boundary condition as a boundary value problem (BVP). The triangular element is used to obtainthe FEM solution. Finally, due to lack of math lab or other mathematicalsoft-wears problems solver to solve our equations, we predicted the nearest solution to our problem.