calculate nusselt with swak4Foam
 

Hi dear friends
im interested to use swak4Foam to calculate Nusselt along a patch.
is there any option to calculate patch gradient in swak4Foam?

Have a look at http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...her_field_are: (I think snGrad is what you're looking for)

the last question, how i can save it as a patch value for all patch faces! not just max, min or average value?

Depends on what you want to do. There is a dumpSwakExpression-functionObject. That dumps all the values. The order is the order of the faces in the patch. So to make sense of this you've got to know that

If you want postprocess the boundary values in paraview then the best guess is to use the readFields-FO that comes with OpenFOAM to read a field that defines a groovyBC with that expression

i did it,
yes i want it for postProcessing in paraView, so tell me how i can manage it?

Well. You need a field file where the boundary condition is set to the expression you want to visualize. The internalField and the "uninteresting" BCs can be uniform (or zeroGradient for the patches). Then in the input panel of the reader (whichever of the both you use) select in addition to the internalField the patch you're interested in. With the "Extract Block"-filter select that patch and visualize it in any way you see fit.

The "interesting" part is getting the patch field. Currently not sure how to do that in a functionObject. One way would be to write a field where the expression is "written" in a groovyBC in the initial timestep and then run the replayTransientBC-utility on it. The other would be to write a similar file but with a fixedValue-BC and then use funkySetBoundaryField to set the value-entry. The advantage of the second approach is that it works for the initial timestep as well.

Hi!

Is there any function to calculate the curl(U) on a patch??

No. I've explained it several times before: differential operators can only be calculated for the whole field at once and I don't want to trigger a calculation on thousands (millions) of cells just to update a few hundred faces, If a user wants that he should create that field with an expressionField-functionObject (curlU for instance) and then use it in his BC. Only downside is that this only happens at the end of the time-step. So for a solver that does several loops per timestep it might be inaccurate. But if it is for a patchExpression, swakExpression it shouldn't be a problem

Thanks for your reply bernhard, although I have looked for it and find nothing!!
In fact, I meant calculate the curl(U) by using functionObjects. So, if I try to calculate the curl(U) just in the patch I get this error:

I assume you mean calculate and store the curl(U) in the volume by means of an expressionField and then use the stored e.g. 'curlU' in the expression within the patchExpresion, isn't it?? In this way it works though I was not very sure of being right.

On the other hand, for a surface integral on a patch, always by using swakExpressions, should I use 'mag(Sf())' as 'dS' term as in the volume one I use 'vol()' as 'dV'??

Thank you very much!

That's exactly what I said with
"expressionField-functionObject (curlU for instance) and then use it in his BC"
(it may be a bit brief but as my time is limited I expect people to at least spend as much time reading the stuff as it took me to write it. Arrogant, I know. But that's me)

I'm not aware of vol() being implemented for patches. An exhaustive list of functions defined on patches can be found in Documentation/swakReference. Or an incomplete (but still valid) list for functions on patches at http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Contrib_groovyBC