New ABL Boundary Condition for low z0 inlet
 

Hi all,

Have recently completed a Research paper which included a CFD validation of the well-known Bolund Hill Experiment. I had to modify the inlet boundary conditions for velocity and epsilon profiles as they would not allow aerodynamic roughness (z0) values less than 0.001 m. The surrounding water at the Bolund site has roughness length 0.0003 m and so the profiles have been adapted to accommodate this lower value. The profiles are those of Richards and Hoxey (1993).

Just thought this may be helpful if you were performing a similar investigation and could not produce the required inlet profiles due to this limitation in the atmBoundaryLayerInlet type inlet functions. I have included all the relevant makefiles and scripts, which i compiled on my machine with 'wmake -libso' command. The library can then be referenced through the controlDict dictionary

Hope this is helpful :)

Hi James and other Foamers,

I am trying to compile the new ABL BC.

I put the files you attached, say atmBoundaryLayerInletEpsilonBolund, atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocityBolund and Make folder in the following directory: $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR/src/finiteVolume/fields/fvPatchFields/derived

In the above directory, I type "wmake libso" to compile the new ABL boundary.

Then I specify the atmBoundaryLayerInletEpsilonBolund type in 0/epsilon and
atmBoundaryLayerInletVelocityBolund in 0/U, and add libs ("libmyBCs.so"); in the system/controlDict file.

However we I run decomposePar, I get the following error massage
"FOAM Warning :
From function dlOpen(const fileName&, const bool)
in file POSIX.C at line 1179
dlopen error : libmyBCs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Dear all,

The problem has been fixed.
The new boundary lib is "libMyBCs.so", not "libmyBCs.so".