source term udf

tas38 · August 14, 2009, 08:54

I am trying to write a udf that adds a momentum source term.

The source term is written in terms of vorticity and vorticity magnitude. As I cannot explicitly extract vorticity and operators such as grad are not available, does anyone have suggestions as to how to write this udf?

consider for example that the source term is grad(abs(vorticity))/(abs(grad(vorticity)){cross}(vorticity)

where vorticity is the vorticity vector and {cross} indicates cross product

tstorm · August 14, 2009, 10:44

FLUENT stores gradients for user-defined scalars. So, you might try storing those terms as user-defined scalars (i.e., C_UDSI(c,t,0) = vorticity(c,t) ) and then accessing the gradient with C_UDSI_G(c,t,0).
Hope that helps!

August 14, 2009, 08:54	source term udf	#1
tas38 Senior Member Troy Snyder Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 219 Rep Power: 18	I am trying to write a udf that adds a momentum source term. The source term is written in terms of vorticity and vorticity magnitude. As I cannot explicitly extract vorticity and operators such as grad are not available, does anyone have suggestions as to how to write this udf? consider for example that the source term is grad(abs(vorticity))/(abs(grad(vorticity)){cross}(vorticity) where vorticity is the vorticity vector and {cross} indicates cross product

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August 14, 2009, 10:44		#2
tstorm Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 78 Rep Power: 17	FLUENT stores gradients for user-defined scalars. So, you might try storing those terms as user-defined scalars (i.e., C_UDSI(c,t,0) = vorticity(c,t) ) and then accessing the gradient with C_UDSI_G(c,t,0). Hope that helps!