Ensemble average for oscillatory flow in OpenFoam
 

Hi guys!

This is my first post here. I googled my problem a lot of times but I didn't find anything about this topic neither here nor in other web sites.
I'm simulating a turbulent oscillatory flow in a channel with my own modified solver based on channelFoam solver. The flow is driven by a periodic pressure gradient, therefore the velocity is also periodic for a given point in the domain.

Now, I'd like to calculate the Umean field, but I cannot use the normal fieldAverage library: since the flow is oscillatory, averaging based on time is useless, and I should use an ensemble averaging.

In substance, I want to calculate the arithmetic mean of the velocity for each phase of the periodic flow. For instance, if the duration of the simulation is 4*Period, U_mean for phase = 0° is:

(U(1st Period, phase = 0°) + U(2nd Period, phase = 0°) + U(3rd Period, phase = 0°) + U(4th Period, phase = 0°))/4.

I'm thinking to modify the fieldAverage code in order to calculate what I want, but I don't know how. I can look into the code, but I'm not able to modify it. Does anyone have a better idea? Did anyone try to do anything similar? Could you give to me any hints please?

I'm using OpenFoam 2.0.1.


Thanks in advance


Danilo

Hi guys!

It seems that this problem is just mine! Anyway, I read that release 2.1.1 of OpenFoam can do an ensemble averaging in post-processing.
Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity to test this new release now, so does anyone use this feature yet? Could it be the solution of my problem?

Thanks in advance

Danilo

Hi Pietro,

Did you manage to solve this issue? I am facing this as well!

Thanks.

Thangam.