[anja]

Hi,

basic question:
How do you implement a velocity profile on an area for an inlet?

Anja

[hjasak]

Have a look at the documentation - we used to have a little tool that would take a graph and interpolate the data onto the inlet patch for the purpose you describe. The class used for it is called interpolateXY and lives in src/sampling/interpolateXY/interpolateXY.H but I cannot dig out the actual utility code at the moment. Anyway, with this class is is pretty easy to write it yourself.

Enjoy,

Hrv

[braennstroem]

Hi,

take a look at the discussion:

http://www.cfd-online.com/OpenFOAM_D...tml?1142952871

with this I could write a nonuniform profile for my inlet. I attached my directory

simpleFoam.tar.gz

Hope this helps!
Fabian

[anja]

Hi Fabian,

more basic questions:
your folder "SimpleFoam" is a new application?
It contains the profile for your inlet.

How do you actually use this application?
I mean when you create a new case with OpenFoam, you get the three folders "0", "constant", "system". My question is how to implement the velocity profile/the new application in "0".

Thanks again
Anja

[braennstroem]

Hi,

I have this folder in the tutorial directory. Run 'wmake' in it; afterwards you should be able to use ssimpleFoam.

Usage: ssimpleFoam <root> <case> [-parallel]

Which changes the entries for the inlet in file 0/U.

Greetings!
Fabian

[francois]

Hi Fabian,

I've just try to develop the same utility.
I've download your ssimpleFoam code but notice one difference from my own utility.

To get the coordinates for cell centre of inletPatchID you used:

const fvPatchVectorField& centre = mesh.C().boundaryField()[inletPatchID];

I was using this statement:

const fvPatchVectorField& centre = mesh.Cf().boundaryField()[inletPatchID];

I don't now which one is best or correct.
For me centre is a surfaceVectorField so according to fvMesh.H we should use mesh.Cf().boundaryField()[inletPatchID] no ?

In fact fvMesh.H it says:
*//- Return cell centres as volVectorField
*const volVectorField& C() const;

//- Return face centres as surfaceVectorField
*const surfaceVectorField& Cf() const;

I'm wrong ?
François

[hjasak]

Heya (sorry to butt in),

You'll get the same data from all of those. When you're using mesh.C() you are relying on the fact that the boundary field of the cell centre volVectorField gives face centres.

You can also do

mesh.boundary()[patchI].Cf();

and a few others - it's just the wrapping of the same data.

Hrv

[francois]

Thank you Hrvoje for this precision !

I will try to make a utility that reads a file with an inlet velocity profile in it and interpolate it on the mesh.

In your previous mail you mentioned a class that can do interpolation for profiles:

src/sampling/interpolateXY/interpolateXY.H

I will try to use it for my utility.

Thank's for taking some of your time to answer questions from newbies !

Francois

[anja]

Hi Fabian,

for what do you need the following line
scalarField y = centre.component(vector::Y); ??


Thanks again, again
Anja

[francois]

Hi anja,

with this line you get the y component of the fvPatchVectorField centre to have your ordinate of the cells centre at the inlet:

// Get x and y coordinates for cell centre
const fvPatchVectorField& centre = mesh.Cf().boundaryField()[inletPatchID];
scalarField y = centre.component(vector::Y);

[anja]

Hi Francois,

that means for a 3D inlet I have to write that line with x, y and z?

[braennstroem]

Hi Anja,

I am not sure, but I think you do not have to, because you refer to the 'inletPatchID'!?

Greetings!
Fabian

[anja]

Hi Fabian,

what is that comment for:
//VectorField& centresb = centres.boundaryField()[inletPatchID];

(It's in your ssimpleFoam.C)

[braennstroem]

Hi Anja,

sorry, I did not clean the code. I wrote this using 'trial&error' method with code snips from the board...

//VectorField& centresb = centres.boundaryField()[inletPatchID];
//scalarField yb = centresb.component(vector::Y);

I think it is just another way to get


const fvPatchVectorField& centre = mesh.C().boundaryField()[inletPatchID];
scalarField y = centre.component(vector::Y);

but I am not sure.

Fabian

[anja]

Hi again,

okay.
My velocity profile for the inlet is a 3D parabolic shape. That's why I want to refer all points of my inlet patch to the centre of the inlet, for defining the velocity value.

Does someone know how to do that?

[braennstroem]

Hi,

I assume that can be done using the 'vector(x,x,x)', like in:

INLET == 10 * pow(y*0.1,0.17) * vector (1,0,0);

This example writes just the u velocity.

[anja]

Well, I mean I need Ux and Uy (as Uz=0), but the value of the velocity for each point of the inlet depends on the distance to the centre of the inlet, as it is parabolic.

The question is how to find the centre of the inlet. Maybe there is a special command I could use.
Or can I just use the coordinates from my gambit mesh. But that would mean that the point of origin for my coordinate system is still the same.

[niklas]

To find the centre for any patch you need to do something like this.

(Cp is the Centre of the patch.)

forAll( faces )
{
Cp += centers[facei]*magSf[facei]);
area += magSf[facei]);
}
Cp /= area;

please do not copy/paste since this is just a schematic coding, but hopefully instructive.

I'm leaving the details to you.

[anja]

Do I have to declare Cp before?
If so, where and how?

Thanks
Anja

[eugene]

You need to declare both Cp and area before the forAll loop.

vector Cp = vector::zero;
scalar area = 0;