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Old   October 23, 2014, 14:22
Default Struggling with standingg waves
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Remi Carmi
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Hi all,

I am a beginner in OpenFoam. I am trying to simulate waves and as a convergence and stability test I try to run the simple case of a standing wave in a 1x1 tank.

I tried to increase the Mesh accuracy and I measure the convergence two ways :
with the Kinematic energy : I measure it at each time step by modifying the solver .C file (ihFoam in my case but it should give the same result with interFoam) by adding the lines :
Code:
OFstream energyTotIntegral("energyTotIntegral.dat");
  while (runTime.run())
    {
 scalar QQ = fvc::domainIntegrate(rho*mag(U)*mag(U)*.5*alpha1).value();
	energyCinIntegral << runTime.timeName() << " "<< QQ << endl;
and a L2 convergence test on the velocity profile :
Code:
double ux (double a, double om, double k, double h, double time, double x, double z)
{
  double res =0;
  res = a*om*Foam::cosh(k*(h+z))/Foam::sinh(k*h);
  res = res*Foam::sin(k*x)*Foam::sin(om*time);
 // Info<< x << " " << z << " "<< time  <<" "  << res << endl;
  return res;
}
to calculate the standing waves Airy (Stokes I) solution for small perturbations and I measure the error like that :
Code:
// Calculate the error in velocity 
	//First Construct the volscalar field of Ux-uAnalytic
        volScalarField Ux = U.component(1);
        volScalarField Uz = U.component(2);
        volScalarField xcoord = mesh.C().component(1); 
        volScalarField zcoord = mesh.C().component(2); 
        // Info<< "Here" << endl;
        forAll (mesh.C(), celli)
        {
               // Info<< "Here" << endl;
		Ux[celli]=alpha1[celli]*(Ux[celli]-ux(a,om,k,h,runTime.value(),xcoord[celli],zcoord[celli]));
		Ux[celli]=Ux[celli]*Ux[celli];
		Uz[celli]=alpha1[celli]*(Uz[celli]-uz(a,om,k,h,runTime.value(),xcoord[celli],zcoord[celli]));
		Uz[celli]=Uz[celli]*Uz[celli];
        }
        scalar er1 = fvc::domainIntegrate(Ux).value();
        errorUx << runTime.timeName() << " "<< er1 << endl;
        scalar er2 = fvc::domainIntegrate(Uz).value();
        errorUz << runTime.timeName() << " "<< er2 << endl;

My mesh is the following :
Code:
convertToMeters 1;

vertices
(
    (0.500	-0.5   	-1   )
    (0.505      -0.5    -1   )
    (0.505	 0.5	-1   )
    (0.500 	 0.5	-1   )
    (0.500	-0.5   	 0.2 )
    (0.505      -0.5     0.2 )
    (0.505	 0.5	 0.2 )
    (0.500 	 0.5	 0.2 )

);

blocks
(
 hex (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7) (1 100 120) simpleGrading (1 1 1)  
);
The BC are :
Code:
patches
(
    patch atmosphere
        (
            (5 6 7 4)
        )
    empty frontAndBack
    (
	//Back
         (0 4 7 3)
        //Front
         (1 2 6 5)
    )
    wall defaultFaces
    (
    )
);
and I set up
for alpha1 :
Code:
dimensions      [0 0 0 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform 0;

boundaryField
{
    atmosphere
    {
        type            inletOutlet;
        inletValue      uniform 0;
        value           uniform 0;
    }
    defaultFaces
    {
        type            zeroGradient;
    }
        frontAndBack
    {
        type            empty;
    }

}
for p_rgh
Code:
dimensions      [1 -1 -2 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform 0;

boundaryField
{
        atmosphere 
    {
         //type            fixedValue;
         //value uniform 0;
	type            totalPressure;
        U               U;
        phi             phi;
        rho             rho;
        psi             none;
        gamma           1;
        p0              uniform 0;
        value           uniform 0;
    }
     defaultFaces
    {
        type            slip;
    }
       frontAndBack
    {
        type            empty;
    }
and for U
Code:
dimensions      [0 1 -1 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform (0 0 0);

boundaryField
{
        atmosphere
    {
        type            pressureInletOutletVelocity;
        value           uniform (0 0 0);
    }
     defaultFaces
    {
        type            slip;
    }
        frontAndBack
    {
        type            empty;
    }

}
Finally the schemes I use are the following :
Code:
ddtSchemes
{
    default         CrankNicolson/Euler or backward;
}

gradSchemes
{
     default     cellMDLimited Gauss linear 1;
}

divSchemes
{
    div((rho*phi|interpolate(porosity)),U) Gauss limitedLinearV 1;
    div(phi,alpha)  Gauss vanLeer01;
    div(phirb,alpha) Gauss interfaceCompression;
}

laplacianSchemes
{
    default         Gauss linear corrected;
}

interpolationSchemes
{
    default         linear;
}

snGradSchemes
{
    default         corrected;
}

fluxRequired
{
    default         no;
    p_rgh;
    pcorr;
    alpha1;
}
Ok now Initial Conditions : I set up the field using the command :
Code:
echo Setting the fields...
funkySetFields -time 0 -field alpha1 -expression '0.5-tanh((pos().z-(0.+0.02*cos(2*pi*(pos().y))))/(3/4*1/N))*0.5' -time 0 > funkySetField.log
the tanh should spread the interface on 3 cells and avoid "loss" of mass at the beginning of the simulation.
All the rest of the fields are set to zero.

So I have :
h=1m
A=0.02 m << h
L=1
Dispersion relation gives om = 7.85096 rad/s so f = 1.24952 Hz
I run the simulations for 7 seconds

and I tried the cases
dt = {0.01,0.005, 0.001}
and L/Dy = L/Dz = {50,100,200,500}=N
I use the scheme Euler first and I get rather good results. It is stable for all the cases but dt=0.01 and N=500.

Unfortunately the case backward does not work...
I played with the case CrankNicolson and it is unstable if I put a too big Psi.


Can somebody help me out? Where am I wrong? Wrong BCs? Wrong Schemes?

If you are interested I can send you the case by email for let's say N=100 and dt =0.005 so it is faster for you to try the case.

Thanks

Remi
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