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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Phys. 2015 Oct 1;298:446–465. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.05.049

Table 1.

Comparison of drag coefficient (CD) for flow past a cylinder from experimental and numerical studies at Re = 20, 40, and 200. For the case with periodic vortex shedding at Re = 200, comparison of lift coefficient (CL) and Strouhal number (St) is also presented.


Study CD CL St

Re = 20 Present 2.06 - -
Taira and Colonius [27] 2.06 - -
Tritton [28] 2.09 - -
Dennis and Chang [29] 2.05 - -
Linnick and Fasel [30] 2.06 - -

Re = 40 Present 1.54 - -
Taira and Colonius [27] 1.54 - -
Tritton [28] 1.59 - -
Dennis and Chang [29] 1.52 - -
Linnick and Fasel [30] 1.54 - -

Re = 200 Present 1.36 ± 0.046 ±0.69 0.200
Taira and Colonius [27] 1.35 ± 0.048 ±0.68 0.196
Linnick and Fasel [30] 1.34 ± 0.044 ±0.69 0.197
Liu et al. [31] 1.31 ± 0.049 ±0.69 0.200
Bhalla et al. [32] 1.39 - 0.200