Hi everybody ...

As most of you are aware, for creeping (slow) flow of Newtonian fluid moving over a sphere the ratio of pressure coefficient to viscous coefficient should be ~ 0.5. Unfortunately, when I use Fluent 5.3, it is not the case. The total coefficient is right, namely, for Re = 0.01, the total drag coefficient should be ~ 2400. I got it 2400.8. However the ratio of pressure coefficient to viscous coefficient is 640.66629/1760.1434 = 0.36. Could anyone think of possible reason.

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