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Old   April 26, 2011, 05:42
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Hi,
I tried getting into the code but couldnt make out muck so anybody pls tell
what are the units of angle that alphaContactAngle and other related schemes accept
degree or radians
???

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Old   April 27, 2011, 04:52
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its unit is degree. you can see the conversion in FOAM_SRC/transportModels/interfaceProperties/interfaceProperties.C like

73 scalarField theta =
74 convertToRad*acap.theta(U_.boundaryField()[patchi], nHatp);

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