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Old   August 12, 2011, 03:12
Default VOF Coefficient in freesurface cells
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I am simulating 2 phases (liquid-gas), 3D flow around ship and I want to capture wave height in far way. If I choose 0.1 as VOF for interface cells, my results would be match with experimental, while if I use cells with VOF=0.5 for freesurface, results are not accurate. I would appreciate if anyone send or introduce a reference which show I can use 0.1 for freesurface or not.
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I am simulating 2 phases (liquid-gas), 3D flow around ship and I want to capture wave height in far way. If I choose 0.1 as VOF for interface cells, my results would be match with experimental, while if I use cells with VOF=0.5 for freesurface, results are not accurate. I would appreciate if anyone send or introduce a reference which show I can use 0.1 for freesurface or not.
definitly not,

to me it seems like a numerical diffusion problem. can you say in how many cells do you have the transition from vof 0 to 1? can you specify the model that you are using (implicit/explicit, transient or steady steate, wich solver, discretization order, wich vof reconstruction method, etc...)
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definitly not,

to me it seems like a numerical diffusion problem. can you say in how many cells do you have the transition from vof 0 to 1? can you specify the model that you are using (implicit/explicit, transient or steady steate, wich solver, discretization order, wich vof reconstruction method, etc...)
Thak you so much. the number of cells depend on vessel speed. roughly it is 3 cells. I am using implicit, transient,Gradient=Least Squares Based, Presuure= Presto, Momentun=Second order upwind, volume fration=Quick and second order implicit for transient formulation
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Thak you so much. the number of cells depend on vessel speed. roughly it is 3 cells. I am using implicit, transient,Gradient=Least Squares Based, Presuure= Presto, Momentun=Second order upwind, volume fration=Quick and second order implicit for transient formulation
do you think it is correct or not?
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looks right.

do you have experiemental data for the whole wake field or just where it touches the hull? if the latter is your case, could you please post a plot of the vof close to the hull, showing the mesh as well?

i would like to check if the problem is just a sort of "numerical surfacial tension" ie high aspect ratio cell causes the flow to rise more that it is expected in the fist cell near the hull.
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looks right.

do you have experiemental data for the whole wake field or just where it touches the hull? if the latter is your case, could you please post a plot of the vof close to the hull, showing the mesh as well?

i would like to check if the problem is just a sort of "numerical surfacial tension" ie high aspect ratio cell causes the flow to rise more that it is expected in the fist cell near the hull.
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Please find the attacheds. I should capture waves in all domain.
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