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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Phys. 2019 Jul 29;400:108854. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2019.07.052

Table 3:

Drag coefficients for three-dimensional flow past a sphere at different Reynolds numbers determined by the present IIM and by several prior computational [99, 55, 42] and empirical [100] studies. Simulation parameters include hfinest = 0.0293, Δt = 0.05hfinest, and Mfac = 2.

Re = 20 Re = 100 Re = 200 Re = 500
Fornberg [99] - 1.0852 0.7683 0.4818
Turton and Levenspiel [100] 2.6866 1.0994 0.8025 0.5617
Fadlun et al. [42] - 1.0794 0.7567 0.4758
Campregher et al. [101] - 1.1781 0.8150 0.5200
Xu and Wang [55] 2.73 1.15 0.88 -
Present 2.6940 1.0920 0.7852 0.5348