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The purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate the setup and solution of a steady flow past a circular cylinder. Flow past a circular cylinder is one of the classical problems of fluid mechanics. For this problem, we will be looking at Reynolds number of 20. 

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{Re} = {\rho VD \over \mu}
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We know D = 2 m. To obtain Re = 20, we can arbitrarily set ρ, V and μ. For our case, let's set ρ = 1 kg/m 3 , V = 1 m/s and μ = 0.1 kg/ms.

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