Boundary Conditions for Flow Problem
 

Hello,

I´ve some questions about how to implement boundary conditions.

I have a domain, where something flows through, in my case I´m using rhoCentralFoam.
At the inlet I´ve a fixed velocity, a fixed temperature and a fixed pressure. At the outlet I want to set a fixed pressure and give no defaults to velocity and temperature. These should be calculated from the neighbour cells in the timestep before.
I hope, you know what I mean ;)

How can I do this in OpenFoam? Is there a possiblity with the standard bc or groovyBC?


regards

treima

I say "groovyBC" to all of these questions, but in your case fixedValue and zeroGradient is sufficient. Although you might want to set the pressure to zeroGradient at the inlet instead of fixedValue which you're proposing

Thanks.

I´ve tried fixedValue and zeroGradient. If I set these outlet conditions,

U - zeroGradient
p - fixedValue
T - zeroGradient

the case gives a floating exeption and problemes with the courant-number.

If I set

U - zeroGradient
p - zeroGradient
T - zeroGradient

the case works, but doesn´t match to my ideas.

The best think would be, if it´s possible to set a "new" boundary condition for every timestep. But if this isn´t possible i´ve to setup a new case with other physical relations. I´m just wondering that this case haven´t discussed before ;)


regards

treima

What is the inlet condition for the pressure?

My inlet conditions are

p - fixedValue, value uniform 1,
T - fixedValue, value uniform 1,
U - fixedValue, value uniform (3 0 0).

And my outlet conditions just should be

p - fixedValue, value uniform 1,

T and U should be calculated from the domain in the timestep before.

Usually you fix the pressure only on the outlet and on the inlet have a zeroGradient. Your boundary condition says "I want a velocity, but no pressure drop". It is very hard for a self-respecting fluid (fluid with a viscosity) to fulfill that and probably while trying to do so your solver blows up

Thank you for your advice.

I´ve tried to fix the pressure at the outlet and set zeroGradient at the Inlet, but I still can´t calculate a solution because of a "floating execption"...

Perhaps this is caused by my geomety, which you can see below. My idea was to set at

inlet: p - fixedValue, T - fixedValue, U - fixedValue
outlet: p - fixedValue
Gamma_free and Gamma_fixed: slip condition (u*n=0).

I was searching for good choices for the remaing conditions. I want to use these conditions, because they are just the first step in a bigger calculation. The aim is to do a very simple shape-optimization with adjoint equations for this case. On Gamma_free should be a given pressure-distribution.

Can be a lot of things. A stack-trace would be helpful

I´ve solved this problem.
If you take a very low temperature, you have a mach-number > 1, so you have to set just inlet-conditions and no condition at the outlet. Now I´m taking a appropriate proportion between velocity and temperature, so that

Ma = (|U|^2)/T < 1

for all timesteps and every cell. Now it works very well.


Now, in my next step, I want to implement the adjoint equation. I have calculated the adjoint equations and boundary conditions. In the subsonic case, for example, I have just one boundary condition, a function dependent of all adjoint variables. A small example is, with a the adjoint variables,

a1 + 2 a2 + 3 a3 + 4 a4 = 0.

Is it possible to implement this in OpenFoam? I´ve a underdetermined equation system as a boundary condtion...