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Old   July 12, 2005, 11:30
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You must either move the

g*alpha*(T-TRef)

term into the UEqn construction statement

fvVectorMatrix UEqn
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or also include the term in the flux prediction by including it in

U = UEqn.H()/A;

and remove it from the momentum correction statement

U -= fvc::grad(p)/A + (g*alpha*(T-TRef))/A;
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Old   June 9, 2006, 17:21
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Christian, have you had any luck? I have been thinking about a boussinesq solver, but haven't had enough time to write it. Does yours work and if so, what tricks did you use to get it up and running. Thanks
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Old   August 2, 2006, 10:36
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Hi,

we also want to build a boussinesq-approximation.
You wrote your solver in the version 1.2. Am I right?
We changed your idea, so it could work in 1.3.
But we had a problem with the line:
g*alpha*(T-TRef)
what type is TRef and T and where you definded it?

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Old   February 16, 2007, 12:34
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Hi,

also trying to get an incompressible boussinesq-approx. solver running ...
I got something working, basically what Christian has posted, with the corrections by Henry.
Works mostly, but sometimes I get problems at boundaries (using a zeroGradient B.C. for pressure) I thought I needed a pressure boundary condition, and implemented one similar to the existing wallBuoyantPressure - just computing the pressure gradient as g*beta*(T-TRef)
Also at first glance seemed to work, gives a smooth looking pressure field, but then I realized strange vectors and pressures at the pressure reference cell, finally calculations diverge. Fixing pressure at some boundary, instead of using pEqn.setReference(pRefCell, pRefValue), works. Not setting a pressure reference the pressure solver (AMG or ICCG) diverges.

almost forgot - using OpenFOAM 1.3

Any hint would be greatly appreciated...

Thank you !

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Old   March 17, 2007, 15:23
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For the lazy ones out there, I have written a Boussinesq approximation incompressible buoyant flow solver with constant material properties. You can get it from the link below, including a tutorial case:

boussinesqBuoyantFoam

Currently, it is laminar and quite easy to understand, it will swallow the wall bouyant pressure b.c. and I think it's a pretty decent example. Extensions to turbulent, real material properties etc are straightforward but uninteresting (for me!).

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Old   March 17, 2007, 18:19
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Old   March 17, 2007, 19:26
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Stupid, sorry: boussinesqBuoyantFoam

Apologies,

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Old   May 16, 2007, 10:19
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Hrvoje,

From one of the lazy ones:

Your implementation suffers the same problems (mass conservation fluxes at walls not parallel to gravity and not at reference temperature).
You can see it if you make your cavity hot at bottom, cold on top, and adiabatic sidewalls.

A pressure B.C. computing pressure gradient as g*beta*(T-TRef), but without contribution to mass fluxes, works.

There is also no need to have an extra density field - which for me is the main point of the Boussinesq approximation.

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Old   March 7, 2008, 09:01
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Hrvoje,
we tried to get your Boussinesq approximation incompressible buoyant flow solver, but we get the following message
The page cannot be found
We wait your help...

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Old   March 7, 2008, 13:36
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Sorry, probably got deleted: try it from SVN:

http://openfoam-extend.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openfoam-extend/trunk/Core/Ope nFOAM-1.4.1-dev/applications/solvers/heatTransfer/boussinesqBuoyantFoam/

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Old   March 10, 2008, 06:47
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Hi,Hrvoje
Thank you for your help, We can download your files.
We start working on this case.
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Old   August 13, 2008, 10:41
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Hi,

somebody created a boussinesq approximation solver with turbulent already and can share it with me? Thanks a lot.

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Old   August 14, 2008, 17:53
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Yes: have a look at:

http://openfoam-extend.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openfoam-extend/trunk/Core/Ope nFOAM-1.4.1-dev/applications/solvers/heatTransfer/boussinesqBuoyantFoam/
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Old   August 15, 2008, 04:23
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Hi Hrvoje,

this solver is for buoyancy-driven laminar flow. I like to try the boussinesq approximation with turbulent flow.

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Old   August 15, 2008, 06:14
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Hi Thomas,

I just wrote Wiki page of Boussinesq-Approximation solver for turbulent flow.

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Co...yantSimpleFoam

Also I wrote Wiki page of tutorial case using this solver.

http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ma...onditionedRoom

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Old   August 15, 2008, 06:46
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Hi Masashi,

thanks a lot! Arigato

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Old   August 15, 2008, 09:02
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Hi Masashi,
nice work! I like your tutorial with the makefile and the python meshing :-)

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Old   August 18, 2008, 11:04
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Hi Masashi,

I have a question about your implementation of the temperature
equation. As I get it, you add a defined heat flux to the equation,
which is activated by the internal field of Q!? I tried a more general
approach by defining a heat flux b.c. using:

const boussinesq::RASModel& RAS = db().lookupObject<boussinesq::rasmodel>("RASProper ties");

scalarField nuEffWall = RAS.nuEff()().boundaryField()[patch().patch().index()];
scalarField alphaEffWall = nuEffWall /Prt;
gradient()=(heatFlux_/(Cp0*rho0*alphaEffWall));

Based on your added b.c. one could use:

wall
{
type fixedHeatFlux;
heatFlux 5.0;
gradient uniform 200;
}

Though I am not sure yet, how to validate this b.c. with a really simple
setup!? And right now, it is a static Prt, Cp0 and rho
implementation. Does anyone know, how to get those value by a
dictionary?




I got one more question about the wall function. Is it correct, that as
long as one uses a constant Pr model is used, the wall effects are all
included in the turbulence model and no separate treatment for the
temperature near-wall behavior is needed?

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Old   August 18, 2008, 12:42
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Hi Fabian,

It seems that fixedHeatFluxFvPatchScalarField.[C,H] are not attached
properly in your previous post. So please attach them again!

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