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The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate the setup and solution of a turbulent flow past a sphere. Flow past a sphere is one of the classical problems of fluid mechanics. For this problem, we will be looking at Reynolds number of 1.14E6. 

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$$
{Re} = {\rho VD \over \mu}
$$
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We know D = 6. To obtain Re = 1.14E6, we can arbitrarily set ρ, V and μ, but will use the standard values in Fluent. For our case, let's set ρ = 1.225 kg/m ³ , V = 2.7754 m/s and μ = 1.7894E-05 kg/ms.

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