[tayo]

Hello Foamers,

Just a quick one here. I need to know how to control the mesh size of the dynamic refinement. I have a coarse mesh for the domain.
1) How do I manipulate the numbers in the dynamicMeshDict file to have the desired refined mesh size? i.e. How do my get the refine mesh size relative to the coarse mesh size in the domain.
2) What does it have to do with cAlpha? I'm using the default setting of cAlpha = 1.
3) Can I have the LowerRefineLevel = 0.0 instead of the default 0.001 since gas phase is at alpha1 = 0.0?

Thank you.


Here is the default dynamicMeshDict that I'm using:

dynamicFvMesh dynamicRefineFvMesh;

dynamicRefineFvMeshCoeffs
{
// How often to refine
refineInterval 1;
// Field to be refinement on
field alpha1;
// Refine field inbetween lower..upper
lowerRefineLevel 0.001;
upperRefineLevel 0.999;
// If value < unrefineLevel unrefine
unrefineLevel 10;
// Have slower than 2:1 refinement
nBufferLayers 1;
// Refine cells only up to maxRefinement levels
maxRefinement 2;
// Stop refinement if maxCells reached
maxCells 200000;
// Flux field and corresponding velocity field. Fluxes on changed
// faces get recalculated by interpolating the velocity. Use 'none'
// on surfaceScalarFields that do not need to be reinterpolated.
correctFluxes
(
(phi Urel)
(phiAbs U)
(phiAbs_0 U_0)
(nHatf none)
(rho*phi none)
(ghf none)
);
// Write the refinement level as a volScalarField
dumpLevel true;
}

[nimasam]

several unrelated issue

1- by
maxCels, maxRefinement and nBufferLayers;

2-increasing of cAlpha1 makes interface much more compress and it is not related to interface

3- nope, because then it would refine almost all gas side

[tayo]

Thanks. I've been playing around with the numbers and I seem to get a good control of it now.

[linch]

Hi guys,

two questions:

1) how several coexisting refinement zones with different refinement levels can be defined? I would like to have refinement level 1 i the whole disperse phase

Originally Posted by dynamicMeshDict

field alpha1; lowerRefineLevel 0.001; upperRefineLevel 2; maxRefinement 1;

and refinement level 3 at the interface simultaneously:

Originally Posted by dynamicMeshDict

field alpha1; lowerRefineLevel 0.001; upperRefineLevel 0.999; maxRefinement 3;

2) What nBufferLayers exactly does? What does it mean:

Originally Posted by dynamicMeshDict

// Have slower than 2:1 refinement

I tried out and changed it from 1 to 10, but nothing happened and no additional cells were refined.

Best regards,
Ilya

[yangzie2014]

hello, i can reply your second question. the "nBufferLayers" is the number of the transition layer between the refine and coarse mesh. in most of cases, we chose 1 for the number.