Using the snGrad operation
 

Hi,
I want to modify the epsilon equation of the LaunderGibsonRSTM in the way, which is discribed below. The Problem lies in the snGrad() operation. With snGrad(...) in the equation, compiling the code is not possible. By changing the gradient with a constant, compiling the code is possible.
Could anybody say, what mistake I'm doing?


=================ORIGINAL=EQUATION================ ===========

tmp<fvscalarmatrix> epsEqn
(
fvm::ddt(epsilon_)
+ fvm::div(phi_, epsilon_)
//- fvm::laplacian(Ceps*(k_/epsilon_)*R_, epsilon_)
- fvm::laplacian(DepsilonEff(), epsilon_)
==
C1*G*epsilon_/k_ + boundarySource
- fvm::Sp(C2*epsilon_/k_ + boundaryCentral, epsilon_)
);
================MODIFIED=EQUATION================= ===========

tmp<fvscalarmatrix> epsEqn
(
fvm::ddt(epsilon_)
+ fvm::div(phi_, epsilon_)
//- fvm::laplacian(Ceps*(k_/epsilon_)*R_, epsilon_)
- fvm::laplacian(DepsilonEff(), epsilon_)
==
C1*G*epsilon_/k_ + boundarySource
- fvm::Sp(C2*(1.0-((C2-1.4)/C2)*exp(-sqr(sqr(k_)/(6.0*epsilon_*nu()))))*(epsilon_- 2.0*nu()*sqr(fvc::snGrad(pow(k_,0.5))))/k_ + boundaryCentral, epsilon_)
);

Thanks,
Rüdiger

Yes. The first parameter of f
 

Yes. The first parameter of fvm::Sp should be a volume scalar field. In your operations you use fvc::snGrad(pow(k_,0.5) which is a face-normal gradient of k^0.5 (why not sqrt k?).

A face-normal gradient is defined on the faces, and you cannot sum up a cell centred and a face centred field. My guess is that you assume snGrad is doing something different from what it actually does.

Hrv

Hrvoje, Thank you for answe
 

Hrvoje,

Thank you for answering so quickly. The answer was very plausible. I think you could help me.

Rüdiger

what about
I suppose phi to be a face centred vector field, and rho to be a cell centred scalar field, so fvc::snGrad(rho) should transform it to a face centered vector field or am I wrong?

I get an error when I try to perform the operation

phi is a surfaceScalarField. It's components are the vector U scalar multiplied with the vector Sf on a face.

Obviously is too late for answering this post, but it could help to someone with the same issue. The problem in this operation is that you are trying to make a dot product between a scalar and a vector , instead of two vectors. The correct code is (the outer product between scalar and vector):