Dimensionless wall distance and velocity in paraview
 

Hello,

I have a 3D mesh (channel) and want to calculate the dimensionless velocity profile to compare it to the theory (wall law). Right now I create a "plot over line" and save the data to a file. Then I postprocess this data to get the dimensionless profile.

As "plot over line" creates new points and interpolates OpenFOAM data at these points, one cannot see the position of each cell in the layer. I want to check, how many cell I got in each layer and where they are, but I do not know how to extract cell values along a line including coordinates.

Is there any way to do this in paraview? Or is there another tool, e.g. provided by OpenFOAM to do the task? Can I create y+ and u+ profiles directly in paraview? I guess tau_wall is unknown and need to be provided; afterwards I would use the calculator?

Best regards,
Sören

You can use the yPlusRAS utility to get the values of the non dimensional wall distance for an RANS simulations:

http://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guid...ard-utilities/

To examine the values over a line you can use the sample utility.

http://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide/sample/

Hello Bazinga,

thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunally, yPlusRAS only "Calculates and reports yPlus for all wall patches, [...]", but I need the values for internal mesh points as well. To my knowledge, the "Plot over line"-tool in paraview only interpolates values, but does not provide any information on the original cell-values as calculated by OpenFOAM. So it is not possible to extract the OpenFOAM-values this way.

For the second part. To get the cell values without interpolation instead of using paraview you can use the sample utility. This will give you what you need. But i do not know how to get the y+ values in the flow field.

If you get the value of y+ at the wall you can calculate u* using the viscosity of the fluid. Then, if you know the wall distance of each cell you can calculate the y+ value for each cell. To get the cell position I think you can use the writeCellCentres utility.