FlowKit Ltd.: Turbulent 3D simulation of the flow around a vehicle side mirror.

The flow around the generic side mirror of a car or a train is a typical benchmark simulation for turbulent flows. The side mirror is modeled by a half cylinder and a quarter of a sphere, and it is attached to a flat plate representing the side of the vehicle.

The side mirror is subjected to an external flow of magnitude 25 m/s, and Reynolds number equal to 500,000.

This simulation has been conducted fully in parallel with the open source lattice Boltzmann software library Palabos.

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