evaluate effective viscosity from U and p already known
 

Hi!

I would like to evaluate an effective viscosity from pressure and velocity field already computed. I mean that I am looking for a field nuEff that obey to:


In this equation, U and p result from a previous computation.

Does anybody know a method to do such a thing ?

Regards,
Cyp

If you work out the brackets in the term on the right hand side, can't you just solve it like any other equation in OpenFOAM? So you use fvc instead of fvm on the terms with p and U and solve for nuEff. I can imagine that this will work, but I'll give you now guarantee.

Yes, but in that case, I will have :

T1 = fvc::laplacian(U) which is a vector

T2 = fvc::grad(p)/rho + fvc::div(phi,U) which is a vector as well.

How can I deduce the value of nuEff which should be a scalar (or may be a tensor) ??

For the right hand side, don't you get something like

fvm::grad(nuEff) & fvc::grad(U) + nuEff * fvc::laplacian(U)

or something like that, which you can solve if you supply boundary conditions?

But you mean this is an overdetermined system or something? Maybe you can work component-wise?

In fact, what I look for is a method to evaluate an effective viscosity that result from a turbulent calculation (RANS, LES).
In case of RANS simulation, I should recover the value of nut and it will be a test case to validate the approach.

I was thinking that the effective viscosity may satisfy :

but I am not sure about that.

I missed the point with your rewritting of the RHS ? if I am right, fvm::grad() has no sense in OF..

Why don't you just write nut directly then? Seems like a unnecessary exercise to me...

Because the RANS approach are just a particular approach of what I need. It makes sense when LES is considered for example.

Why? Then you still have an effective viscosity in the way it is implemented in OpenFOAM.

Yes, but what I look for is the effective viscosity that corresponds to time-average velocity and pressure fields. It is not the case of the nuSgs of the LES..

Why don't you use the time-averaged value of nuSgs/nut? I don't think this will make a very big difference compared to what you want to do. I still don't get why you want to do it this complex...

Because I do not have it and the simulations are too long to be start one more time...

I keep working on this problem and I identified some issues.

I need to calculate


where I is the identity tensor and x is the position in the x-direction.

How can I access to the value of x ?