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Transport equation based wall distance calculation

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Where as the wall distance vector could be written as: <br>
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:<math>\vec d = d{{\nabla \phi } \over {\left| {\nabla \phi } \right|}}  </math>
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Wall-distance variable

Wall distance are required for the implementation of various turbulence models. The approaximate values of wall distance could be obtained by solving a transport equation for a variable called wall-distance variable or \phi.
The transport equation for the wall distance variable could be written as:

 \int\limits_A {\nabla \phi  \bullet d\vec A}  =  - \int\limits_\Omega  {dV}

with the boundary conditions of Dirichlet at the walls as  \phi  = 0 and Neumann at other boundaries as  {{\partial \phi } \over {\partial n}} = 0


This transport equation could be solved with any of the approaches similar to that of Poisson's equation.

Wall distance calculation

Wall distance from the solution of this transport equation could be easily obtained as:

 d = \sqrt {\nabla \phi  \bullet \nabla \phi  + 2\phi }  - \left| {\nabla \phi } \right|

Where as the wall distance vector could be written as:

\vec d = d{{\nabla \phi } \over {\left| {\nabla \phi } \right|}}



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