[kairzhan]

Hi Foamers !

I'm trying to implement my turbulence model, and stuck with wall-function for k. I need to specify a value for k on the boundary which is calculated from other variables. So to do this I copied the standard wall-funcion definition from epsilon (epsilonWallFunction) which does the needed functionality but for different variable (epsilon). So I renamed class and all it's methods from epsilon to k. Everything compiled normally. But when I tried to specify new wall-funcions for k I got runtime error message:

Unknown pathField type kBuoyantWallFunction for patch type wall...

And my wall function is not listed in valid patch field types.

However, if I try to specify this same wall-function name ( kBuoyantWallFunction) for epsilon it finds it, as valid wall-function but for wrong variable.

So it seems that my wall function is registered in the wrong selection table..

How can I specify where the wall function should be registered ?

The code is in attachments.

[Patrick Grover]

Hi

I am also working on custom wall functions for OpenFoam.

I your controlDict file do you link to your custom library? This is what I have added at the bottom of my controlDict file:

<code>
libs
(
"libmyIncompressibleRASModels.so"
);
</code>

Cheers,
Patrick

[kairzhan]

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for the reply, but I've finally managed applying custom WF. The problem was in that I didn't commented k_.boundaryField().types() from the kEpsilon.C file:

tmp<volSymmTensorField> kEpsilon::R() const
{
    return tmp<volSymmTensorField>
    (
        new volSymmTensorField
        (
            IOobject
            (
                "R",
                runTime_.timeName(),
                mesh_,
                IOobject::NO_READ,
                IOobject::NO_WRITE
            ),
            ((2.0/3.0)*I)*k_ - nut_*twoSymm(fvc::grad(U_)),
            k_.boundaryField().types()
        )
    );
}

It seems that k_.boundaryField().types() somehow affects the visibility of custom WF.