Sedimentation of spherical particles.

  • Yellow and Red particles are identical. Different colors are used just for visualization purpose.
  • Simulation parameters
    • CFD Lattice: 256 x 256 x 512 mesh
    • Number of Particles: N = 3,204
    • Diameter of Particles: D = 10 mesh
    • Volume Fraction: Φ = 0.05
    • Particles Reynolds No.: Re ~ 1
    • Number of Iteration Steps: 25,000
    • Computation Time: 2.5 Days on Intel Core i7 (4-cores)
    • Compiler: Intel C++, MKL, OMP
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