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Old   November 24, 2013, 05:32
Default the internalField entry of U file is not valid in pisoFoam
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i was solving a 3-D cylinder flow case with pisoFoam.
the internalField entry of 0/U file was set to uniform (1 0 0).
however, the preview of 0s showed that the internalField entry failed to work. the U value of internalField remained to (0 0 0), see the figure below.
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boundary
Code:
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.2.1                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       polyBoundaryMesh;
    location    "constant/polyMesh";
    object      boundary;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

4
(
    inlet
    {
        type            patch;
        nFaces          1920;
        startFace       1747920;
    }
    outlet
    {
        type            patch;
        nFaces          1920;
        startFace       1746000;
    }
    cylinder
    {
        type            wall;
        nFaces          3840;
        startFace       1742160;
    }
    fb
    {
        type            wall;
        nFaces          36000;
        startFace       1706160;
    }
)

// ************************************************************************* //
0/U
Code:
/*--------------------------------*- C++ -*----------------------------------*\
| =========                 |                                                 |
| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |
|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.2.0                                 |
|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |
|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |
\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
FoamFile
{
    version     2.0;
    format      ascii;
    class       volVectorField;
    object      U;
}
// * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * //

dimensions      [0 1 -1 0 0 0 0];

internalField   uniform (1 0 0);

boundaryField
{
    inlet
    {
        type            freestream;
	freestreamValue $internalField;
    }
    outlet
    {
        type            freestream;
	freestreamValue $internalField;
    }
    cylinder
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform (0 0 0);
    }
    fb
    {
        type            fixedValue;
        value           uniform (0 0 0);
    }
}

// ************************************************************************* //
is there anything wrong with my code?
thanks in advance.
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Hi,

did you check if your boundaries are correct.
It seems that inlet and outlet are not the patches you wanted to have.
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Hi,

did you check if your boundaries are correct.
It seems that inlet and outlet are not the patches you wanted to have.
Hi Tobias!

My computational domain is a circular cylinder. Inlet patch is on the left hand, and outlet patch is on the other side. Is there anything wrong about the boundary condition?

The similar geometry was used in a 2-D case with icoFoam. And internalField entry of U file worked.

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Do you have another file in 0/ which has the "object U" entry? E.g. a file U.org?

Note that since you are looking at the 0-folder, this has absolutely nothing to do with icoFoam or pisoFoam. The solver haven't touched your files yet.
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Do you have another file in 0/ which has the "object U" entry? E.g. a file U.org?

Note that since you are looking at the 0-folder, this has absolutely nothing to do with icoFoam or pisoFoam. The solver haven't touched your files yet.
Hi, I might found the primary issue. The fb patch is a wall type BC and its value of U is set to uniform (0 0 0). There is a transition layer between boundary and internalField. The real internalField part is surrounded by the layer, and it will be occurred when clipped.

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The transition layer is probably only there because you chose to view point-interpolated field values in paraview.
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